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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This whole thing about multiple suits and modesty is somewhat ironic. The function of a swimsuit used to be modesty. You wore the smallest, tightest suit you could get away with and still cover the areas we've deemed as a society should be covered in public. Now, all of a sudden, with these new suits were covering up more of the body in order to swim faster, but we say we need to wear something else for modesty. It's strange I'll tell ya.
This whole thing about multiple suits and modesty is somewhat ironic. The function of a swimsuit used to be modesty. You wore the smallest, tightest suit you could get away with and still cover the areas we've deemed as a society should be covered in public. Now, all of a sudden, with these new suits were covering up more of the body in order to swim faster, but we say we need to wear something else for modesty. It's strange I'll tell ya.
