Benefits Of Swim Suits

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People have been asking what FINA is going to do about the world records set using the now banned swim suits. Thirty-eight of the forty-two world records have been broken by swimmers wearing the LZR Racer while it was legal. Twenty-three of these records were set at the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing with the suits on. Ninety-four percent of the gold medals were won by people wearing these swim suits and eighty-nine percent of the total medals won were by swimmers in these illegal suits (Cole, 2008). These statistics say a lot about how much the polyurethane swim suits have changed the sport of competitive swimming. Records are made to be broken, but it is a clear indication that these suits should not be allowed when twenty-three world records fall at one meet. This is not normal for swimming, records are very hard to break and it does not happen often. FINA had three choices, they could take away the records and go back to the ones set before people wearing the suits broke them. This is an unacceptable way to handle the problem. It is not right for FINA to take the records away because they are the ones that approved the suits in the first place and who is to say that the person couldn’t have set the record without the LZR swim suit? The chances are not high but it is not up for anyone to decide now. They had the choice of keeping the records as they are. This is better that getting rid of them, however, it will be very hard for anyone to even get close in breaking those records for a very long time. These suits make such an enormous difference not only physically but mentally as well. If you are told that the swim suit you are wearing is the fastest swim suit in the world, you’re going to feel and swim like you are the fastest...

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...ield is now fair. So long as the suits remain banned, spectators, as well as the competitors attention will once again be focused on the swimmer as opposed to which swim suit they might be wearing during the competition.
Conclusion
These swim suits, and any suit with polyurethane in them, need to stay far away from competitive swimming. If there was some way that we could keep them but make them cheaper, as to allow a fair competition, it would most definitely have been done already. Unfortunately, the cost to buy the special material and make these suits just simply can’t be lowered anymore. Not only has it been researched and proven to be a fast swim suit, America and every other country has seen just how much it can do. Banning these suits for good will be the most fair thing FINA can do, not only to the less wealthy in America but to other countries as well.

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