Time observations about World's

I'm not saying the suits have no effect. For me personally, the suits made me about 1 second faster per 100 than when I was shaved and wearing an FS Pro jammer. I'm just saying that, as you imply, there are lots of factors which could lead to slower times and it's not all (or necessarily even primarily) attributable to the suits. Maybe Vlad's career, family or other interests interfered with his training and he was badly out of shape. Or maybe he was sick recently (or currently). Or a host of other things. I can't believe that the suits could cause an elite-class swimmer to drop 3 seconds in his 100 ***. I'd be curious for his perspective. I had just about everything go wrong for me in my preparation for my taper meet three weeks ago, and I swam a second slower than my high-tech suit time in the 50 *** (my only high-tech event in long course last year). So, if he really had poor preparation, I will understand. But I doubt that was the case. That's all I have to say about that.

I'm not saying the suits have no effect. For me personally, the suits made me about 1 second faster per 100 than when I was shaved and wearing an FS Pro jammer. I'm just saying that, as you imply, there are lots of factors which could lead to slower times and it's not all (or necessarily even primarily) attributable to the suits. Maybe Vlad's career, family or other interests interfered with his training and he was badly out of shape. Or maybe he was sick recently (or currently). Or a host of other things. I can't believe that the suits could cause an elite-class swimmer to drop 3 seconds in his 100 ***. I'd be curious for his perspective. I had just about everything go wrong for me in my preparation for my taper meet three weeks ago, and I swam a second slower than my high-tech suit time in the 50 *** (my only high-tech event in long course last year). So, if he really had poor preparation, I will understand. But I doubt that was the case. That's all I have to say about that.