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Controversy Over High-Tech Swim SuitsJayne Glanton
October 16, 2013
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Introduction:
In the beginning of the sport competitive swimming, people didnt wear any kind
of suit when competing. They found that any clothing worn would slow them down. But
as the years went by and people became more conservative with their bodies, they started
wearing dresses and full body suits so that nothing could be seen by anyone. They went
so far as to put weights into the skirts of women so that they wouldnt float up in the
water and reveal anything that wasnt to be seen. When the Olympics started in 1896,
new suits and fabrics that made it easier to swim and didnt hinder the swimmer during
the race (Deborah Durbin). They were trying to replicate the feeling of swimming naked
while keeping the modesty of the swimmers intact. As years went by and technology
evolved they kept coming up with new ways to get fabric to replicate the way that human
skin repels water. After the suit that was created for the 1992 Olympics, Speedo has made
a new suit with new technology for every single Olympics since then (Durbin).
Most recently the swimming community has made huge advances in the
development of high-tech suits or other wise known as competition suits. These suits are
built to smooth over parts of your body that can cause drag and slow you down, cover
large portions of your body and repel water. They come in all sorts of styles, from
covering ankle to wrist or just knee to shoulders. Some people complained that these suits
caused an unfair advantage in the sport.
I have swam competitively for twelve year and have worn six different types of
racing suits, the Fastskin LZR Racer, the LZR Pro, the Fastskin II Pro, the Fastskin, the
Aquablade, and the Nike Performance suit. You may ask why I have so many of these
really expensive suits and the answer is that they wear out easily so you can only wear
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them to one maybe two meets. Usually you get a new race suit every season. I would get
a new one for every short course season ending meet. In my personal experience, I prefer
the Speedo brand suits because they are better fitting and they also have an advantage
over every other company by being the one who gets the most research and money to
make the best suits.
I believe that high tech suits do give somewhat of an advantage to the swimmer
but their main purpose. Just like track shoes with spikes give runners instead of just a
plain running shoe. I believe the high-tech racing suits do need to have restrictions but
they shouldnt be banned for a few tenths of a second difference in time. So my stance is
that they should be allowed to be used because they are there to help the sport of
swimming become more competitive and harder for the champions to be found, which
makes people work harder. Sometimes, mentally the way they make you feel, gives you
that extra confidence boost you need to push you through the race. But most of all, you
wait all season to get it on and they cost several hundred dollars. The sport maybe rapidly
becoming more and more competitive but sometimes things need to be pushed.
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