Hot Olympic dudes

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally Posted by tld221

hehehe, true. i wonder, timewise, how you can get changed, swim, showered and changed again for swimming in a 45-minute period? were those classes longer?

I think we had double-gym at my school - it was every other day for two periods or something like that.

Originally Posted by tld221

so the swimming trials are on... when did the dudes start swimming in spandex pants and unisuits? WTF is this?

bring back the Speedo. im old enough to appreciate them, thanks.

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.

[ADqtPiMel]

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.

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: