New rules announced today!
BBC
World swimming governing body Fina has moved to limit the impact of the controversial hi-tech swimsuits.
Last year saw an astonishing 108 world records broken, 79 of them by swimmers wearing one suit, the Speedo LZR Racer.
But following a three-day meeting in Dubai, Fina has stipulated swimsuits should not cover the neck and must not extend past the shoulders and ankles.
... opponents of the hi-tech suits argue the buoyancy they create amounts to "technological doping".
And matters came to a head in December when 17 world records tumbled at the European Short-Course Championships with the sight of swimmers squeezing into more than one suit in an attempt to compress their bodies and trap air for buoyancy dismaying many observers...
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Hey Karen
Your statement "Humans are not biologically designed to swim? Really? Hmm, what the heck have I been doing for exercise, health, and recreation for the past 28 years then?" is flawed reasoning.
Your statement about your 28 years of swimming experience reflects how you've merely adapted your land-based biological characteristics to the aquatic environment rather than being created by nature for it.
You were in fact not biologically designed to swim otherwise you (and other humans) would be able to breath underwater through gils or have sufficient lung capacity and metabolism to remain submerged for an extended period of time with relatively infrequent surfacing to breath from the atmosphere.
Furthermore, I presume you do not have a streamlined body or fins and a tail like a fish, or web feet like a duck or an alligator otherwise you would be appearing on the Discovery Channel as the world's only "Amphibiometric Human".
Swimming is not an inherent human instinct either. If you drop any human who has never learned how to swim at even a rudimentary level into deep water, they will not know how to react and they will panic and possibly drown.
Aquatic instructors and life guards aren't at pools to assist fish and ducks with their living environment.
Dolphin 2
I guess you're an evolutionary biology expert as well? There are some who think we were well-suited to water at one time in our evolutionary past.
Take a look at the Aquatic Ape Theory.
For a basic summary: en.wikipedia.org/.../Aquatic_ape_hypothesis
I don't know if this theory "holds water" (:D) but I love it that you consider yourself an EXPERT EXTRAORDINAIRE. What else would we expect...:rolleyes:
Hey Karen
Your statement "Humans are not biologically designed to swim? Really? Hmm, what the heck have I been doing for exercise, health, and recreation for the past 28 years then?" is flawed reasoning.
Your statement about your 28 years of swimming experience reflects how you've merely adapted your land-based biological characteristics to the aquatic environment rather than being created by nature for it.
You were in fact not biologically designed to swim otherwise you (and other humans) would be able to breath underwater through gils or have sufficient lung capacity and metabolism to remain submerged for an extended period of time with relatively infrequent surfacing to breath from the atmosphere.
Furthermore, I presume you do not have a streamlined body or fins and a tail like a fish, or web feet like a duck or an alligator otherwise you would be appearing on the Discovery Channel as the world's only "Amphibiometric Human".
Swimming is not an inherent human instinct either. If you drop any human who has never learned how to swim at even a rudimentary level into deep water, they will not know how to react and they will panic and possibly drown.
Aquatic instructors and life guards aren't at pools to assist fish and ducks with their living environment.
Dolphin 2
I guess you're an evolutionary biology expert as well? There are some who think we were well-suited to water at one time in our evolutionary past.
Take a look at the Aquatic Ape Theory.
For a basic summary: en.wikipedia.org/.../Aquatic_ape_hypothesis
I don't know if this theory "holds water" (:D) but I love it that you consider yourself an EXPERT EXTRAORDINAIRE. What else would we expect...:rolleyes:
