Ugh. Speedo’s Bad.
According to ESPN, the Speedo is gaining support with the swimming community, and swimmers are going to have to choose between wearing the same swimsuits that they have been wearing for years or wearing the new suit and in the process pissing off sponsors and looking like complete doofuses in the process. According to one swimmer:
“I’m going to wear the Speedo at the Olympics,” South Africa captain Gerhard Zandberg told The Associated Press on Saturday at the short-course world championships. “I’m not going to sacrifice performance.”
Zandberg, who is sponsored by Arena, acknowledges he’ll be fined $4,750, but said Olympic gold is worth much more.
There are some who believe that the suit is a shortcut to victory and is no different from using a performance-enhancing drug:
Speedo critics suit cite illegal levels of buoyancy and call it “technological doping” because it combines a polyurethane layer with a layer of normal fabric. But FINA’s rules say “different fabrics can be used in one swimsuit.”
Illegal levels of buoyancy. Right.
All I know is the old suits are bad enough and the new one is just hideous. It looks like something out of a futuristic gay porno. Not that I’ve ever seen any of those of course.