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- maxvette, on 05/20/2009, -2/+70Good lord, shut the hell up and make them swim naked. But then people would be accusing eachother of having penises that are so small that the lack of drag gives them an unfair advantage.
This is the same sport that tried to disqualify someone for having large feet. now they disqualify people for using swimsuits availible to everyone. - hawkspur, on 05/20/2009, -2/+49Protip: When everyone has one, it's not an unfair advantage.
- airwalkery2k, on 05/20/2009, -0/+22I hope they don't ban my swim trunks with propellers on the back.
- stormgren, on 05/20/2009, -0/+17Several of the suits that were "banned" were just rejected on technicalities. For example, the Nero BluSeventy is considered "likely to trap air" or some other BS. It passed all the scientific tests--buoyancy, thickness, material testing, etc. Other suits made from the same fabric were passed. A redesign will, I'm sure, be approved.
Also I doubt any of you have any clue what I'm talking about. - pradaaddict, on 05/20/2009, -0/+16Phelps swims in the Speedo LZR suit. It's definitely approved and the man is just a superhuman freak built for swimming not doped up.
- failtrain, on 05/20/2009, -3/+12Buried for no pics of women in swimsuits.
- Digger1123, on 05/20/2009, -1/+10You are stupid. The LZR was (and still is) legal.
- hardtoconfuse, on 05/20/2009, -4/+12I propose we use the official swimsuit of glorious nation Kazakhstan.
- stormgren, on 05/20/2009, -0/+7Yea. Only "relevant" sports like... football...or, or baseball should matter. Yeah!
Wait what? All sports are recreation. Rules are artificial. How are any sports "relevant"? What bold statement are you failing to make? - maz2331, on 05/20/2009, -1/+7Make them swim nude. It's more fun for all involved, and CNN can blur out the parts of the scene that they don't want to show to the Thumper crowd.
- o76923, on 05/20/2009, -0/+5Marijuana doesn't help athletic performance.
- jessemoya, on 05/20/2009, -2/+7Hm, if only there were some suit that everyone ever on Earth could swim in. Like, say, something that we were born with, you know?
Wouldn't that be convenient? If on the day of our birth we arrived in some sort of waterproof suit that we could swim in? I bet the records would be quite even, then.
Too bad. - diemunkiesdie, on 05/20/2009, -0/+5Watching swimming is usually boring. But I would totally watch nude swimming. ESPN needs to get on that.
- elipabst, on 05/20/2009, -0/+4Don't wanna know where the batteries go in order to power that thing....
- SaladCactusKing, on 05/20/2009, -0/+4I believe...
you are a butthole. - octopusorgans, on 05/20/2009, -3/+7i just jaked 01 with some x-glide.
- airwalkery2k, on 05/20/2009, -0/+4Instant wedgie!
- Ressah, on 05/20/2009, -4/+7not everyone does, different sponsorships for different swimmers thus the unfair advantage.
unless you want the swimmers to earn less money (by way of sponsorships) and have to pay the thousands of dollars for the suits... i hardly see that as 'fair' though. - inactive, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3it's controversial because it helped to set new world records and the people who set the old world records didn't have them.
still, technology evolves so i don't see the problem with people nowadays having more aerodynamic suits. - C0MF0RTABLYnumb, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3I think this is ridiculous. Any one could use any of these swimsuits. It's like trying to ban a sprinter from using lighter shoes.
- inactive, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3Kudos for bashing religion, and making it related to banned swimsuits.
- Groovydoo, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3The suits made of Chloroprene were rejected with prejudice rather than science. They passed the buoyancy tests yet conjecture or suspicion by the lead tester inspired FINA to reject. The letter which proves this prejudice is here:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CudGbXbfHUM/ShOCHEn-FXI/ ... - b1ffr43p, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3*cough* Harrison Bergeron *cough*
- swgc5, on 05/20/2009, -1/+3They should have to swim naked, seems fair to me.
- bloodhound01, on 05/20/2009, -3/+5The world totally sucks at modernizing with the advancement of technology.
Just look at religion, they are the worst out of everyone. - murraj2, on 05/20/2009, -1/+3Is anyone going to mention that these weren't actually rejected?
Straight from the article: "The "X-Glide" by Arena and the "Jaked 01", which have been used notably by French sprinters Alain Bernard and Frederic Bousquet respectively to set new world records last month, did not appear on FINA's approved list but FINA did not specify whether they were rejected outright or whether they appeared on the 'to be modified' list." - ArmandoM, on 05/20/2009, -1/+3Maybe the coach was holding a bag of Doritos at the end of the pool.
- inactive, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2It was bound to happen. I wouldn't be surprised if they banned more soon.
To the people that want to ban all kinds of faster suits, we might as well ban cleats of any kind because the traction helps them run better, carbon fiber golf clubs (or whatever else they do to them), or any other form of equipment designed to improve performance.
I'm not saying we don't go overboard with technology sometimes, but there's no reason they shouldn't be able to wear something just because it improves performance. I don't think it's a bad thing they're regulating the suits, but banning all is just stupid.
Plus these suits make you feel sexy. - o76923, on 05/20/2009, -2/+4Its called switching sponsors. When another sponsor has a superior product, swimmers should switch to the better provider. Then the sponsors they're leaving have to come up with new and better ones to win back the swimmers. Its called capitalism.
- 4rp4n3t, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2Thanks. Saved me from actually reading the article...
- doctordbx, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2I think a sporting body is taking it's position of authority just a little too far.
- stormgren, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2Except these suits aren't just used at the very highest levels. I swim for a division 3 NCAA school.
Schools like 29-time national champion Kenyon can afford to purchase suits for their swimmers. My school cannot. We had to buy our own. We didn't have any choice, though. If we didn't buy they, we'd get flattened by the people who did.
So kindly tell me what sponsor I should switch to, exactly. - AVigorVermin, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1these comments are absurd. There is obviously a fine line for what is allowed and what isn't. We all agree they can't wear underwater jet packs right? It's just a matter of where the line is. My opinion? Whatever they decide is fine as long as it's somewhere between naked and jetpack. And all swimmers are given access to the gear.
- kjax82, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1I think an obvious question would be What should be done if records were set with newly-illegal suits? Swimmers will complain that it's unfair that the record still sticks if they themselves can't use the same faster suit. Hopefully the records will be broken fast enough that it won't really matter.
- Hellahulla, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1Irrelevant? Is there a sport that is relevant?
- vapn420, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1He's going to get dugg down? yeah right. what makes any of you idiots think their world records even have any meaning? The times all of these idiots beat were set by athletes *NOT* wearing the suit. Also, even though the suit is available to anyone, their cost is astronomical and I don't think you can use most more than a few times. Are you all basically saying that the sport of swimming has come to the point where whichever team has the fattest wallet for the latest and greatest ***** wins? We wouldn't accept this if the New York Yankees won the World Series because they could afford to buy the latest undetectable performance enhancer would we?
- 0biKwiet, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1Maybe a lot of people don't want to swim nude. Maybe the prospect of swimming nude would put a lot of people off swimming and give the sport a bad stigma. Besides, that's what Speedos were for. The new swimsuits are more hydrodynamic that skin.
- 0biKwiet, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1The amount of aid these things provide only really begin to show at very, very high levels of competition. At lower levels, it might give you a very slight edge that let you nose out some races, but it's not going to make you aqua-man.
- tahcoboy, on 05/20/2009, -1/+1I hope they bring the price $500 price tag of these suits so i can get me one now that they are banned :D
- Traiklin, on 05/20/2009, -1/+1don't you dare try to take credit for my shark themed spedos!
- iresha, on 08/03/2009, -0/+0A creative solution to the FINA swimsuit crisis. No one is disadvantaged and everybody - I mean - everybody is happy!
http://justtofun.blogspot.com/2009/08/fina-swimsui ... - pimpofpixels, on 05/20/2009, -1/+1Well that's stupid, but honestly, competitive swimming is pretty lame in general. I care about it exactly once every 4 years, and not very much.
- Scaramanga7, on 05/20/2009, -0/+0You mean a dead yak wrapped around the midsection?
- JoeHague, on 05/30/2009, -1/+1I'm willing to bet that anyone who swims professionally has access to the most advanced swimsuits/
At the collegiate level I'm willing to bet that anyone good enough to set a world record has a scholarship from a school that can afford to buy the most advanced swimsuit/
I'm willing to bet that at any level of competition besides the most elite, winning and loosing has nothing to do with what swimsuit your wearing.
In short, I'd be surprised if any swimmer good enough for the swimsuit to make a difference between winning an loosing is wearing the most advanced swimsuit. - teh_spazz, on 05/20/2009, -2/+2Oh man. Swimming naked would be excellent.
Excellent most of the woman are surfboards themselves. - record200, on 05/20/2009, -1/+0I don't think swimsuits a good idea both for aesthetics and fairness reasons.
Sports are supposed to be held in equal conditions which suits ruin. - jemka, on 05/20/2009, -5/+3Next Phelps:
NSFW: http://digg.com/politics/Naked_Wizard_Taser_Brawl_ ... - americanoboy, on 05/20/2009, -4/+1is it really a record if it was only obtained thanks to the suit?
- akatsuki, on 05/20/2009, -5/+2I'd rather they just specced a standard Speedo and let the athletes compete. Anyone who thinks that winning using an advanced swimsuit means you are the better swimmer is delusional... but what do you expect from a world that believes in easy solutions?
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