Now why would they dispute the stories? – defeats me!
“FINA, the world governing body of swimming, have convened a summit meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, today to debate the issue of high-tech swimsuits with manufacturers, scientists, coaches and swimmers following calls to ban them on the grounds that they offer extra buoyancy and therefore amount to performance-enhancing aids.
Critics of the suits point to the extraordinary statistics in Beijing where swimmers wearing the Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit won 90 per cent of all available medals and broke 23 world records, including Adlington’s demolition of Janet Evans’s 19-year-old 800 metres freestyle mark. Since Speedo launched the suit a year ago, an astonishing 108 world records have fallen”
(Via Swimwear giant Speedo hit back at ‘unfair advantage’ claims – Telegraph: .)
