bodysuit is his day in court get
SWIMMING controversial Body is legally off the Australian be tested Olympic Swim Team is chosen.
The move will prevent challenges to the last team that represents Australia at the Olympic Games in September.
Australian Olympic Committee Secretary General Craig McLatchey said a ruling on the regulations around Bodies of would be sought as soon as possible.
The AOC is concerned that the gold medal winners of the neck-to-ankle suits could be subjected to endless protests by competitors who do not.
McLatchey said yesterday that he wanted the matter cleared up before the Australian team selection Tests in May.
Over the last few weeks, Speedo and adidas, the high-tech latex catsuit , likely to be used by most of the swimmers at the Olympic Games presented.
issue is whether the rules of swimming's world governing body FINA to use the suits to reduce the resistance of the cover and slowly building up lactic acid.
The first two swimmers in each race will be testing the Australian team.
The AOC is concerned that swimmers wearing the suit could not nationals of a third, the first two swimmers who wore the suits ready to challenge.
It will present this week a case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which is the final ruling body during the Games.
FINA has received an invitation, a part of the AOC proven test case are confident that the bodysuits legal.
Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe and Chris Fydler have said that the suits give competitors a distinct advantage.
Mr. McLatchey said the rules were clear and the issue would flare if it is not deleted soon. Go
"While opening of the Games to athletes to CAS if FINA does not properly attributed to its own rules Feeling, "he said.
"If CAS found that FINA has not, then a result could be threatened by an Australian athlete."
Speedo and adidas were invited to participate in the test case.
"It would be terrible if they found that a suit made by Adidas, for example, were the FINA rules and the outcome of the injured athletes have been set aside," Mr McLatchey said.
Australian swim team members of the CAS legal opinion would be well advised, but it would be up to each individual to decide whether to wear the suit.
"Es wird ihre Entscheidung sein und dann werden wir eine Befreiung von den Athleten zu erhalten, um sicherzustellen, dass sie nicht klagen uns an, wenn sie gefunden werden, um einen Anzug getragen, dass die illegale's haben.
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