There are several talks about the banning of the new tech. suits that significantly impacted these past Olympic games.  As we know, these suits are banned in the U.S. for the 12 and under age group swimmers in order to preserve the competitive nature of the sport and take away the financial burden that these suits would have on young swimmers and their families.

However, now Australia is looking to ban the suits all together for the same reasons.  That means that all age groups would not have access to the suits.  In my opinion, I don’t think it is a good idea to restrict the access to these suits when the swimmers have reached a certain level.  Maybe 13 is still a little bit too young to introduce these suits to the swimmers and maybe we should reconsider to move the age to 15.  However, that being said, younger swimmers are becoming faster and faster each and every year.  So, by the time that the 2012 Olympic Games come up we might be seeing several more 15 year olds at trials.

Again, this is just my opinion, but I think that Australia would be making a huge mistake if they were to remove the suits overall from all of their comptitions.