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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I must disagree. As I told "D2", I am very aware that I am not a fish or live in the ocean, but that doesn't mean I can't swim! If I weren't biologically able to swim then I wouldn't be!!! (I was going to insert a Presidential dis here, but refrained).
A plant can't swim. IT is not biologically designed to swim.
I must disagree. As I told "D2", I am very aware that I am not a fish or live in the ocean, but that doesn't mean I can't swim! If I weren't biologically able to swim then I wouldn't be!!! (I was going to insert a Presidential dis here, but refrained).
A plant can't swim. IT is not biologically designed to swim.
