Swim Cap Drama
Swim Cap Drama
Drama hit the Olympic Trials community this week. I don't typically follow this stuff but it's caused a bit of a situation for ALL swimmers competing in the Olympic Trials. The USOC (United States Olympic Committee) just came out and said that swim caps may not have a logo on the front of the cap and may only have a team logo on ONE side of the cap. Considering we are less than 2 weeks from Trials, this has created some frantic coaches and swimmers. We have had to entirely rethink the cap situation on short notice. The reasoning behind the requirement is that the USOC wants the Olympic Trials to match the Olympic rules exactly. Since all GOOD silicone caps have a corporate logo on them which is embedded in the construction of the cap, this means most teams need all new caps. Club Wolverine coaches have been trying all sorts of solutions this week including new blank (low quality) silicone caps as well as using markers to black out logos. As soon as I saw them turning Speedo Aqua-V caps inside out, I had seen enough. I took one of the test caps home and figured out a way to remove the logo from the front of the Aqua-V cap. Something tells me this knowledge will be useful to others very soon...
I haven't decided how I feel about the cap rule just yet. On one side (no pun intended), logos can bring sponsors and money to swimming. On the other hand, speedo didn't pay me to wear their cap, so why should I have their logo on it in every picture and video taken of me? I tried unsuccessfully a year ago to remove the speedo logo, I had more motivation this time around.
Speedo - 0
Doak - 1
