lol @ Ronn Moss, looks like he's wearing some strange hybrid between a pair of speedos and a mankini.

He wore the speedos in the 60's. By the 80's he's going full monty all the time. And using his powers to double team his wife.

I think actually that Dr. Manhattan doesn't even wear speedos normally.

Why do people think that just because they have super powers they get to run around in speedos? It's hard to take someone like that seriously.

^I disagree, the bullshit must continue. Let's get the two of you in speedos and a vat of honey, pronto! It's a Tickle Fight!!!!

>> ^dag:
The fact that the top 3 all broke the world record says A LOT about the new Speedo suits.


I hope that was tongue-in-cheek. Speedo has been making "sharkskin" and "aquablade" suits for years with the same goal of less water resistance and better muscle compression. If you watch more of the races you will see plenty of events where the athletes only wear jammers (knee length) or legs. If the new suit material offered a distinct advantage, you'd see body suits in every event.

It all comes down to what will make the athlete "feel" fastest in the water. (This is the same reason why swimmers shave. Removing the layer of dead skin cells makes you feel much faster through the water, and is as important as removing the resistance causing hairs.) Claiming that these suits somehow enabled such great swims is akin to attributing Adrian Peterson's NFL single-game rushing record last season to the plastic pads and helmet he wears that athletes 50 years ago didn't have access to.

After all, those suits aren't the ones in the water for 6 hours a day for the past 4 years.

"how does a swimsuit somehow make everybody set records like crazy?"
Nasa and Speedo engineered a suit that captures the essence of sunshine and butterflies, and the world was never the same thenceforth (see video).

Wow. I have no interest in swimming, but... wow.

I read that Nike said 2 weeks ago that their sponsees could wear the speedo suits(i remember reading adidas but i must be wrong on that). Which really... is pretty groundbreaking in the capitalistic world. 48 of the last 50 world records have been set in that swimsuit. So my question, how does a swimsuit somehow make everybody set records like crazy?

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The fact that the top 3 all broke the world record says A LOT about the new Speedo suits.

they seem to have a thing for speedos too.

Surely the can find a way to make it remove binkis on the way down...(And replace speedos with trunks)

Upvote for Europeans and their inexplicable addiction to Speedos.

Bleedingsnowman, those ass-less chaps sound sweet-i farm in a speedo-
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re-loader gear
and paying down a 10k loan in some chunkage-

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Well, it's a matter of regulations. So let's compare with F1: FINA speed swimmers are allowed to wear speedos/suits (carrosserie) but aren't allowed to add propulsion with finns (motors).
I think it would be interesting to also have speed swimming without suits (with speedos , so there would be even more possible world swimming records.