[DeepThought]

I agree that those are evil fascist rules. I think the best action would be that all athletes would choose the other organizations till CMAS would result to a more enlightent view of life.
I don't know if it is legal or not and was wondering as well. Although the news item might be new the rules aren't. There has been a thread about that before, don't remember the title, maybe a search on CMAS/AIDA/BANNING would bring it up if you're interested.