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Dave any sport needs rules
I am only going to post once here and confine my comments to the rules only. I am not one of those rule-weenie's but, triathlon never looks good in these sorts of circumstances. It looks silly, actually. We have cowboy rules with rules all over the place in different places with exceptions here and exceptions there. What I would like to see as both a competitor and as a manufacturer is some unity on rules - across the board and across all jurisdictions. Other sports can do this, why not triathlon?
In other sports, rule changes are made before the year begins, this gives all competitors a level playing field for how they choose to invest their equipment-dollars. Rules changes once the season or "year" has begun simply reeks of potential corruption, which in turn makes people much less likely to want to be part of that sport, or they simply accept the idea that the process is corrupt, and then you go down the path of fighting fire with fire, and in this instance that just means taking your Xterra to the local wetsuit repair and having a 7mm panel sewn in.
Be forthright in your rulings as a sanctioning body, and you give the athletes a reason to follow suit. Start acting in a potentially corrupt manner, and then its every athlete for him/herself. The limit at that point is based solely on creativity and guile.
And please, let's be adult enough to accept responsibility for our own actions. this means if you get caught cheating, own it.
If you purchased a wetsuit, own that responsibility as well.
nobody likes a crybaby, you just make the rest of us look bad.
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