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/



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