Fearing a short term lawsuit from the likes of Blueseventy. FINA has revised its approved suit list to include some polyurethane monsters like the blueseventy nero comp, Arena X-glide, Jaked 01, and Decente Aquaforce. This is quite possibly the worst day ever for modern swimming.
What really pisses me off is that now FINA is basically forced to ratify the ridiculous world records of Fred Bousquet (20.94 – 50 free), Alain Bernard (46.9 – 100 free) and Ryosuke Irie (1:52.86 – 200 backstroke). We have reached the point of no return. All suits are go for Rome this summer. Be prepared for the record books to be rewritten.
What a fucking joke! It took them all of one month to revise their list of suits…. They had a great chance to make a stand against performance enhancing suits and they folded…Big Time! FINA has shown that it can be manipulted and no longer has credibility. I’m embarressed to be apart of the sport of swimming right now.
They are supposedly going to tighten suit rules January 1, 2010. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Well done FINA!
