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Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin
I think we had double-gym at my school - it was every other day for two periods or something like that.
They are actually faster than a Speedo - and they've been around a really long time. When I was back in high school I dated a swimmer and he had one of the Spandex pants looking suits. I forget the appropriate name but I'm guessing someone else on the thread will know it.
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They don't really have a name, per se - I've always called them bodyskins. They're just for competition and are much faster than traditional suits. For practice a lot of swimmers wear a regular suit and a drag suit (an old stretched out suit) and occasionally pantyhose with the feet cut off and drag shorts (looser fitting short shorts). For less-important meets I had a fast suit that looked like a regular suit, and I wore the full-length suit for major competitions. My competition suit was similar to this:
