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Speedo's LZR Racer bodysuit makes waves 4 Apr 2008
At the first meet since its launch, three world records and two US records were broken by swimmers wearing Speedo's new LZR Racer bodysuit. Created via a combination of the latest in computational fluid dynamics research, aerospace engineering and help from the boffins at NASA, this revolutionary sportswear item reduces drag by 5 percent, which means that swimmers can shave whole tenths of seconds off their personal bests. But with the Beijing Olympics looming, the question on everyones lips is: is this cheating or is it just great design? PopSci.com investigates...
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Tarou 1 Mar 2012 02:52 AM
mikeHOpe to read the cab sriotes. That should be interesting.I have read about the science of this swim suit. The ingenuity behind it is that they studied the drag coefficent of the body while swimming various strokes. Them they treated somehow those areas to make them hydrophbic. Those areas actually repel water, thus reducing drag. I think that if you took the times of the same swimmer, one trial without and and one with the suit, he/she would post a slightly better time with the suit. Whether that improvement would be to physical or psychological (thinking you can do better, so you will) factors, is quite debatable.I think that it is kinda cheating, actually.