NASA Technology Speedo Suit Helping Swimmers Break Records {Switched.com}

Apr 4th 2008 8:21PM we need naked swimmers in pools of distilled water. period. naked runners on a standardized surface. period. vaulters with wooden sticks. no technology. all athletes competing on the same ground against the same standard. otherwise, its you and the performance enhancing drugs or, the equivalent, your team of research scientists back at the lab. is the guy who ran the mile in 3' 55" really faster than the guy 50 years ago who ran it in 4' 11"? no way to tell, is there?