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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In the below posts, D2 makes a dead-on observation, and some are shooting him into the ground just because it is he who posted. He made really valid point: Humans were not made to swim.
Humans are land creatures -not aquatic or amphibious animals- and humans are basically not biologically designed to swim.
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 gills 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".
In the below posts, D2 makes a dead-on observation, and some are shooting him into the ground just because it is he who posted. He made really valid point: Humans were not made to swim.
Humans are land creatures -not aquatic or amphibious animals- and humans are basically not biologically designed to swim.
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 gills 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".
