The ban on full body swim suits came at a nice time for all those athletes who set records in 2009... ;-)

After seeing a post about male swim suit technologies... I bet you are hesitant to click on the link now... don't worry there are no NSFW imagery of budgie smuggling... I thought it would be interesting to checkout the Swimming world records mentioned.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/sports/olympic-swimming-dressed-for-a-world-record/

So for a tldr; It's an animated graphic illustrating the relationship between the introduction (and withdrawal by banning) of advances in the technology.


But its interesting that banning the all body suits in 2010 came at a great time for all the athletes who used them to set world records using them in the 2009. These records are pretty much set in stone for the time being...



Freestyle world records
wikipedia

50 m freestyle	20.91		César Cielo	Brazil	18 Dec 2009	Brazilian Championships	São Paulo, Brazil	[5][6]
100 m freestyle	46.91		César Cielo	Brazil	30 Jul 2009	World Championships	Rome, Italy	[7][8]
200 m freestyle	1:42.00		Paul Biedermann	Germany	28 Jul 2009	World Championships	Rome, Italy	[9][10]
400 m freestyle	3:40.07		Paul Biedermann	Germany	26 Jul 2009	World Championships	Rome, Italy	[11][12]

50 m freestyle	23.73		Britta Steffen	Germany	2 Aug 2009	World Championships	Rome, Italy	[43][44]
100 m freestyle	52.07		Britta Steffen	Germany	31 Jul 2009	World Championships	Rome, Italy	[45][46]
200 m freestyle	1:52.98		Federica Pellegrini	Italy	29 Jul 2009	World Championships	Rome, Italy	[47][23]
400 m freestyle	3:59.15		Federica Pellegrini	Italy	26 Jul 2009	World Championships	Rome, Italy	[48][49]
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Other sources on this topic;
http://ivorysofa.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/end-of-swimsuit-wars.html
(more detail)


Original post;
http://flowingdata.com/2012/07/26/swimsuit-technology-and-breaking-world-records/