enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. High-technology swimwear - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-technology_swimwear

   Since 2010, high-tech swimsuits, specifically those offering significant performance-enhancing features and made from non-textile materials, have been banned in professional competitive swimming. This decision was made by FINA after the 2008 and 2009 swimming seasons, during which many world records were broken by swimmers wearing high-tech ...

3. LZR Racer - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZR_Racer

   The LZR Racer Suit unveiling at a press conference in New York City in February 2008. The LZR Racer (pronounced as "Laser Racer") is a line of competition swimsuits manufactured by Speedo using a high-technology swimwear fabric composed of woven elastane-nylon and polyurethane.

4. Arena X-Glide - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_X-Glide

   The LZR Racer and all other Speedo Fast Skin Competition Suits were approved. However other suits like the BlueSeventy Nero Comp were banned first and afterwards released, too. In an abrupt reversal of opinion, the FINA Congress voted almost unanimously to revert its previous policy and ban all body-length swimsuits. [5]

5. While the suits are no longer super, swimming attire still ...

   www.aol.com/news/while-suits-no-longer-super...

   Fifteen years ago, Michael Phelps won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics wearing a high-tech swimsuit with a catchy name, the Speedo LZR Racer. The super suit era lasted just one ...

6. Here's why the full-body swimsuits banned ahead of the 2024 ...

   www.aol.com/heres-why-full-body-swimsuits...

   Why are full-body swimsuits banned? Full-body swimsuits were banned by World Aquatics in 2010. World Aquatics oversees the artistic diving, diving, high diving, open water swimming and polo ...

7. Technology doping - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_doping

   The LZR Racer is a swimsuit by Speedo that was launched in 2008. It is made with a material that was designed to mimic shark skin. It is made with a material that was designed to mimic shark skin. The suit allows for better oxygen flow to the muscles, holds the body in a more hydrodynamic position, and traps air which adds buoyancy.

8. History of competitive swimwear - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/.../History_of_competitive_swimwear

   The history of competitive swimwear has been dominated by concerns over public nudity in the first half of the 20th century and by efforts to reduce water drag in the second half. [1] Those efforts initially led swimmers to reduce the early sagging one-piece swimsuits down to briefs only. With the development of new materials that tightly fit ...

9. Swimsuit controversy: Alaskan swimmer who was disqualified ...

   www.aol.com/news/swimsuit-controversy-alaskan...

   The high school swimmer who was disqualified over a controversial "uniform violation" has had her victory reinstated, following accusations that she had been discriminated against.. Breckynn ...