SportsGeezer’s Swimsuit Edition

Sorry to disappoint, –no bikinied babettes here–but loyal readers should know by now that Geezer will write anything in a headline to increase readership. This swimsuit edition extols the rewards of wearing more, not less, of a fabric that appears to slide through water with greater ease than human skin. The Wall Street Journal reports that at a recent competition in Tokyo, Japanese swimmers broke 17 national records — including one world
record — and all but one of them were by swimmers wearing the new
Speedo LZR suit, which happens to be outfitted with thin polyurethane panels to minimize drag. The piece points out that records often fall in an Olympic year, since swimmers train and compete so that they peak then, and that it hasn’t been independently determined whether the new Speedo technology provides an advantage for swimmers. Still, Geezer believes the LZR racer would make a fine Father’s Day gift.
Read more in the Wall Street Journal.
Read what Geezer wrote about the LZR racer a while back, and forgot about.