How did the swimsuits for swimmers in the olympics change over time?
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Swimsuits have changed as new materials have been introduced.
Swimsuits in the mid-20th century were made of wool jersey knit. Then came nylon, which dried much faster, was very durable, but was not stretchy. The most form-fitting designs required a zipper up the back.
Lycra suits came along in the 70's (first worn in Montreal games in '76). For about 20 years, the focus was on making the swimsuit smaller, tighter fitting, and covering less skin.
Since then, new materials have focused on minimizing water absorbtion and flow control. The focus is more on covering more skin.
the suits that they wear are a special fabric called fastskin made by speedo
first it asborbs less water making u weigh less and then it reduces friction less friction faster u go
then it is designed to help water just flow off of it
only problem over time the fabric becomes less like that it will slowly take more water but it is still a good suit
go to speedo.com and read about fastsin
They have covered more skin over time.
Darn Americans are getting too modest.
A lot of the information found out by swim suit designers was found by studying sharks in the ocean. The shark's skin has the same elements swimmers want when going through the water. To find more you can look at iTunes podcasts [Speedo Make Waves].
When the olympics first introduced swimming people swam nude. then they developed the first swim suits (dont know wat they were made out of. in the twentith century speedo came in and inveted a low profile suite they later developed the jammer and then the fast skin whic is worn by mostly all olympic swimmers today. Nike has there version of a fast skin to which provides less drag doesnt asorb mch water and is very tight. swim caps are also used by todays swimmers and of coarse goggles. sorry i didnt know really how to word this hope it helps.
They were all basicly made out of the same matierial then Mark Andrew a consaultent for speed invented a fabric in 1996 that they launched in 1997. It was of coarse the Aquablade. Then speedo decided to try to mimic fishes skins and shark was the only fish they tried and the results they god were awsome. ( Fastskin, Fastskin FS 2) then they found another matierial that is better that that. Fastskin Pro.) And now the LZR racer is basicly the same thing exept the patches helps muscle movment so ther are even better. Thats a basic history of it.
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