USMS / FINA Swimsuit Rules
This just in from U.S. Masters Swimming (USMS): The FINA Masters Committee has recommended that the FINA Bureau, meeting in mid-January, approve its recommendation that Masters swimmers be governed by the same swimsuit rules as the elite pool swimmers. If the Bureau approves the committee’s recommendation, it is anticipated it would go into effect after the Bureau meeting. If this recommendation becomes policy with the FINA Bureau, USMS will implement it for our sanctioned swim meets.
For the time being and until the FINA Bureau issues its policy for Masters, the June 1, 2009 ruling that allowed technical suits in USMS swim meets is still in effect. If you choose to compete in a USA Swimming sanctioned meet, you must follow USA Swimming rules.
October 12th, 2009 at 8:47 am
D’oh! Apparently you were posting this as I was posting my other comment. What’s your opinion on the suits for Masters swimmers?
October 13th, 2009 at 4:21 am
In all honesty, I don’t feel strongly one way or another. But then, I haven’t tried a tech suit. (My spare cash tends to go toward camera gear.) I can certainly understand the passionate arguments from those who use them, those who don’t, as well as those who manufacture them.