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It's really amazing that the suit can make this much difference. All in all, it will be better when they go back to the standard "speedo" style swim-trunk.
1 posted on 07/28/2009 8:32:36 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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Glad the doper lost!


2 posted on 07/28/2009 8:34:29 PM PDT by notaliberal (Right-wing extremist)
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5 posted on 07/28/2009 8:41:12 PM PDT by Lizavetta (Politicians: When they're not lying, they're stealing.)
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They need to swim in the nude to end this.

Then the only question will be...rudder or anchor

10 posted on 07/28/2009 8:48:13 PM PDT by this_ol_patriot (I saw manbearpig and all I got was this lousy tagline.)
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These buoyancy suits have been described as “like doping on a hanger”.

They’re amazingly effective (don’t know about the doping part), you’re suspended on the surface of the water


15 posted on 07/28/2009 8:54:47 PM PDT by justkate
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Was it the man? Or was it the suit? “

The suite obviously. Swimmers don't casually go about taking 8 seconds off their 400 meters freestyle time in just 11 months like this guy did when he broke In Thorpe's 7 year old virtually “unbreakable” world record, or 4 seconds off his 200 meters time in the same 11 months too, like he did when he brokr Phelp's 200 meters freestyle record. It took Micheal Phelps 5 years to go from 1:46 to 1:42.9 in the 200 meters freestyle, and he is the best swimmer this world has ever seen.
Biedermann is going to find his times going drastically up when FINA take his suit away from him starting next year. Poor guy.
Meanwhile Phelps felt he owed some loyalty to Speedo after they have stood by him during this “bong” business, even as other sponsors like Khellog abandoned him, so he refused to use the new space age, much faster suits.
Anyways, the is is only the World Championships. The Olympics is what matters , and everyone will be using the same old suits. He can go mano o mano with Biedermann, with no external forces helping either of them.

18 posted on 07/28/2009 9:05:35 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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