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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The FINA "rules makers" must be male, or so it appears.
I'm with Allen :chug:. Under a tech suit, briefs are fine for males (although I go "commando") and a typical workout suit should suffice :cheerleader: for the ladies.
.(I don't want any of the guys to volunteer to check to make sure the women aren't wearing a jogbra.)
Allen, since you don't want any of the guys to volunteer, I will instead offer to help the lovely women get their 1 competition suit zipped up.
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.
What a happy coincidence for Speedo that the LZR is the only full body technical suit on the market that will be approved under the new guidelines. With the stroke of a pen, their competition is eliminated. Wonder how much they had to pay for that?
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.
What a happy coincidence for Speedo that the LZR is the only full body technical suit on the market that will be approved under the new guidelines. With the stroke of a pen, their competition is eliminated. Wonder how much they had to pay for that?
Gull...that's not a nice thing to say about the best darn swimsuit company in the world. You are starting to sound like Geek, come on now, we all know FINA wouldn't make rules that help speedo get rid of suits that are better than theirs...that people like better than theirs...that is just plan wrong for you to make those statements....;););)
Interesting. How are features like this not considered performance enhancing?
"CORE CONTROL PANEL"
The internal panel stabilizes the swimmer for a more powerful and consistent stroke while helping to maintain optimal body positioning throughout the race.
i'd buy me a wife beater with a core control panel in a heartbeat
Here comes TYR Titan http://www.tyr.com/titan/
Anyone else think this suit looks like a B70 with "core stabilization panels"?
Isn't there a danger it will fail the new permeability tests?
