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Kjakið í seinastuni hevur týðiliga víst, at hóast nógv tala at superdraktunum, so er tað eisini tey sum halda at tær eiga at verða verandi. Her niðanfyri eru fimm argument av blogguni hjá Southern Aquatics Swim Scaq Swim Club, undir yvirskriftini “Why the suits must stay!”

1. Never in the history of swimming have there been so many multinational rivalries – the playing field has been leveled
2. Never in the history of swimming have there been as many televised swimming events both on cable and on the web
3. We have more than two major players now sponsoring meets and open water events – Speedsuit revenue generated these sponsorships
4. This isn’t your grandpa’s swimming any more and they have this new thingy called “goggles” too
5. Two words: snappy dressers! Just look at that handsome devil above taking flight in his manly TYR Tracer Light modesty suit!

Nøkur úttalilsi úr grein á SwimNews:

• Alain Bernard (fronsk superstjørna): “This decision will have serious consequences for swimming and us swimmers. FINA’s positions are contradictory and impossible to understand.”
• Denis Auguin (venjari hjá Bernard): “It is beyond comprehension. We will see swimmers going well beyond what they are capable of and rivaling the best in the world. It is a complete absurdity. World swimming is … the athletes not the incompetents in the FINA office in Lausanne.”
• Christian Donzé (franska svimjisambandið): “On one hand they ask us what we think of the idea of a return to textile … and on the other they approve the 100% polyurethane Jaked. That makes no sense.”
• Lionel Horter (franskur landsliðsvenjari): “What has become of our sport? What are the values and priorities of the people in charge? It is such a terrible mess. Protest at worlds? I will do all I can to ridicule FINA.”
• Jacco Verhaeren (hálendskur landsliðsvenjari): “It’s a nasty take of our sport. The first question that will be put to any winner in Rome will be ‘what suit are you wearing’ and the second one will be: ‘did you win because of your suit”. I am truly disturbed by this.”
• Helge Goedecke (avstralskur venjari): “I thought what we saw in Beijing would not happen again. And now look… Why is FINA falling over? Everyone has the problem now to have to test suits. But how are you supposed to test them if you can’t buy them.”
• Hugues Duboscq (franskur OL-heiðursmerkjavinnari): “I have a contract (adidas) that I will stick to. I am [skating] on ice. I will not wear a Jaked because I’d be too fast. The world championships are ruined … that’s not sport. It is [swimming] my passion, I’m not playing at it.”
• Bernard Moustie (umboð fyri Speedo): “If Michael Phelps gets pulverised by a second-wrung swimmer, that will be be a good slap for FINA.”
• Alan Thompson (avstralskur landsliðsvenjari): “I am extremely disappointed with the outcome.”
• Grant Stoelwinder (venjari hjá Eamon Sullivan): “I know what the Jaked’s capable of.”
• Forbes Carlile (avstralsk venjaralegenda): “By failing to speak up there are many in swimming who should hang their heads in shame over this disaster, which they have aided and abetted.”
• John Leonard (venjaraumboð hjá FINA): “Suffice it to say to you, the decision of the [FINA] Executive does not follow the decisions of the Suit Commission in any way. I will express myself (after some questions) in Rome, face to face with the Executive.”

Altjóða svimjisambandið FINA kunnger nú í tíðindaskrivi, at allar draktir eru góðkendar, sum vórðu latnar inn til nýggja test í síðstu viku. Tað vil siga bæði tær sum vóru tillagaðar til nýggja test, og tær har framleiðarin helt seg kunna ávísa, at draktirnar ikki kundu fanga luft. Hendan avgerð merkir mest sannlíkt eisini, at øll tey heimsmet nú verða góðkend, sum ivi hevur verið um í seinastuni, av tí at svimjarin svam í einari av hesum draktum.
Continue reading Allar superdraktir eru nú loyvdar aftur

L’Equipe hevði sambært SwimNews í gjár eina opnu við upplisting av hvat ið nakrir av heimsins bestu svimjarum halda um superdraktirnar. Eftir øllum at døma var ein stórur meiriluti fyri at fáa avmarkingar í verk:

• Aftur til vanligar, stuttar draktir: Alain Bernard (FRA), Filippo Magnini (ITA), Stefan Nystrand (SWE), Mirna Jukic (AUT), Therese Alshammar (SWE), Paul Biedermann (GER), Hugues Duboscq (FRA)
• Eisini vanligar heildraktir: Alexander Dale Oen (NOR)
• Eisini superdraktir, men við reglum: Eamon Sullivan (AUS), Libby Trickett (AUS), Federica Pellegrini (ITA)
• Ongar reglur: Frederick Bousquet (FRA), Rafael Munoz (ESP), Markus Rogan (AUT)

FINA fráboðar sambært SwimNews, at endaligi FINA listin verður kunngjørdur nú mánadagin 22. juni, yvir góðkendar draktir á 2009. Freistin var annars longu nú fríggjadagin 19. juni, at lata inn draktir til nýggja góðkenning, men FINA hevur opinbart útsett kunngerðina eftir umbøn frá franska svimjisambandinum, til ikki at órógva m.a. Paris Open, nú í vikuskiftinum.

Nei nei, tað er ikki Craig Lord hesuferð, men heldur er ein samrøða á www.floswimming.org, har John Leonard greiðir frá mannagongdini hjá FINA, sum ein av teimum trimum venjarunum í “The FINA Suit Commision”. Og hatta við ‘fiaskoini’ er eisini tikið hagani, úr yvirskriftini “Front Line of the FINA Suit Fiasco : Speakers & Interviews”

FINA stjórin Marculescu sigur her á swimmingworldmagazine.com, at tað var týðingarfeilur og misskiljing tá ið hann varð endurgivin fyri at hava sagt, at “we are here to cut the cancer out”, um tað at superdraktirnar skulu burtur. Og rættar tað til, at “we cannot cut this out simply like a cancer”. Støðan er tó tann sama, at tey hava ikki stundir at loysa trupulleikan beint nú, men ætla at koma við nógv strangari reglum í 2010. Í aðrari grein á heimasíðuni spyr Nancy Brown, um svimjing er við at gerast ein ríkmannaítróttur, eftir at hava verið til árligu YMCA Nationals í USA.

Tey siga at hon er gjørd “to allow swimmers and coaches the best opportunity to pick the fastest suits available”; men www.suitwars.com virkar næstan sum ein joke í løtuni. Ikki tí, promo-videoin er fangandi 🙂

Craig Lord á SwimNews sigur seg vita, at FINA nú hevur biðið sínar 22 bureau-limir um teirra áskoðan viðvíkjandi lufttøttu plastdraktirnar, at svara áðrenn 3. juli. Á heimasíðuni hjá amerikanska svimjivenjarafelagnum ASCA er eisini nokk so góður slatur, um hvat FINA ætlar, frá John Leonard sum er formaður í ASCA, og ein av trimum venjaraumboðum á fundi millum FINA, framleiðarar og venjarar í februar (hinir vóru Alan Thompson úr Avstralia og Osvaldo Arsenio úr Argentina).
Continue reading FINA vil banna øllum lufttættum draktum

Amerikanski mastersvimjarin David Guthrie hevur nakrar rættiliga áhugaverdar próvførslur her á SwimmingWorld Magazine, fyri hví hann heldur at tey nógvu heimsmetini í seinastuni eru ikki bara vegna superdraktir, men heldur vegna ‘Phelps effekt’ og broytingar í teknikki og venjing.
Continue reading Kanska eru supertíðirnar ikki bara vegna superdraktir?