What the hell is with those bodysuits at the olympics?

[name not needed]

Gaah! They look like something my great grandmother wore to the beach back at the turn of the century!

[GOPisEvil]

1. I doubt your great gramdmother wore anything that tight.

Those suits are slick...they really help the swimmer cut through the water.

[name not needed]

4. You're probably right

But I still don't get why they made the change.

[Ready4Change]

2. Low drag tech.

I heard they were thinking of banning them a few years back, and guess they didn't.

They're made of a material the produces less drag in the water. I think the first ones were called sharkskins, as they were developed from studies of sharkskins which also produce low drag.

[NMDemDist2]

3. which channel are you on? all i can find is boxing and volleyball

n/t

[Placebo]

5. You're just upset you don't get to see SKIN...

and so am i :mad: :P

[madrchsod]

6. full suit costs over 260 dollars

i guess it`s worth it for a few hundredths or thousandths of a second...