Are you kidding? Travel soccer costs the earth and 12 year old kids are running around in new $150 kangaroo skin cleats and $200 Adidas warm ups every season.
That must be why the US dominates soccer. Because we spend $350 on equipment everyyear. Oh. Wait. Fortress, you couldn't have been more off point. Unlike (appearantly) a LZR, expensive cleats and warmups do not make you a better soccer player. And while it may be true that kids have to be part of a travel team to play soccer HS sports in suburbia, I was actually referring to the real world.
Your argument isn't really true either. Some kids can afford $150.00 hightops or the newest Nike football cleats and some kids can't. That doesn't stop them from playing for the most part.
Again, there is a distinct difference between Nike hightops and a Speedo LZR. Nike actually makes poor football equipment. They are sold for $150 because LT wears them, not because they make you a better football player.
I think this whole suit issue is way out of hand....
The fastest swimmers are the fastest swimmers. If you put all swimmers in jeans, sweatshirts, and tennis shoes and had them race in those "costumes" the fastest swimmer would still win.
It all comes down to swimmers having access to the same "costume". Cheating happens when competitors do things that aren't allowed for all competitors.
It would be an issue if the "costume" became the engine. I don't think the LZR has set any records without a swimmer wearing it......
As for the old WR's some may have been faster if they had access to these suits 10-50 years ago, but most of these records would of or will be beaten by bigger, stronger, faster swimmers. "Evolution Happens"
:2cents::bolt:
