The Washington Post reports that in the six months since its release, Speedo’s new Fastskin FS-Pro has swimsuit already impacted dozens of national and international swimming records. Made from a new fabric conceptualized by Speedo, the FS-Pro offers a combination once believed to be impossible: It weighs less than half as much as most standard swimsuits yet maintains the muscle compression of a heavy body wrap. Swimmers will wear it and likely break more records this week at the national championships in Indianapolis. Wait, there’s more: At the lastest world championships, 76 percent of all athletes who wore the FS-Pro swam a personal-best time. Only 18 percent of swimmers who wore anything else managed to do the same.
Read more in the Washington Post.