“FINA should have kept much closer watch over it all. Better surveillance and foresight would have avoided plenty of unnecessary controversy and angst in 2008, which should have been nothing other than a historic Olympic year highlighted by Phelps trumping Mark Spitz with his eight gold medals in Beijing.
How the waters got muddied by swimsuit technology bears plenty of study. FINA officials, disturbingly late to the party, have been studying plenty in the last few months, trying to avoid getting beaten to the wall again by an industry which helps finance their popular but not terribly profitable sport. A sport which continues to dwell in the commercial shadows between Olympics.”
(Via Swimming tries to get a grip on high-tech suits – International Herald Tribune: .)
