Sportsfan,

If you consider being removed from voting in the national adoption of rules as winning, yes we've won. What a great message to send to our kids.

As for their concern for FS/GR, you are right, why should they care? It's not a sport they endorse anyway! So why the regulations against it? Thanks for furthering my point.

Mr. Mann, thanks for the open discussion:

I do maintain that 7% is an arbitrary number based on various factors. 1. In peak competitive form, many sports drop below the 7% threshold. Cross country is one, track is another, swimming is a third. When we institute rules in arbitrary fashion (that's what this is) we run the risk damage to the sport. A wrestler in peak condition could concievably be at a 5 to 6% range. I spent most of my time in high school/college at that level. 2. There is a disagreement even with those in the field of what's a good body fat percentage. 7% is a consensus, not a scientific fact. There's a difference between the two. Granted, they are much more qualified than I to make that distinction with MD, etc, behind their name, but I'm smart enough to critically think.

Bodybuilders on the day of competition have extremely low body fat percentages, as do marathon runners and cross country runners. It's part of peak conditioning.