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.
If you buy his observations as science, then I guess so. However, if you read up on the subject it isn't that simple. There are actually scientists out there that do question whether or not humans have some kind of evolutionary aquatic adaptations. My problem with D2 is that his assertions are made with certainty when he's not an authority on the subject. Saying "it looks to me like humans aren't made for water" and saying "humans aren't made for water, period" are two very different things in my book.
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.
If you buy his observations as science, then I guess so. However, if you read up on the subject it isn't that simple. There are actually scientists out there that do question whether or not humans have some kind of evolutionary aquatic adaptations. My problem with D2 is that his assertions are made with certainty when he's not an authority on the subject. Saying "it looks to me like humans aren't made for water" and saying "humans aren't made for water, period" are two very different things in my book.
