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Strife in swimming's fast lanes 6:01pm on 01 Jun 2009 Oh, and again at NemanjaCraig, if you think that swimmers get pid 100k a week you really are delusional. Becky Adlington was on something like 40k a year before Beijing so really, do some research before posting.
Strife in swimming's fast lanes 5:58pm on 01 Jun 2009 At NemanjaCraig:

Firstly, you (no offence meant) obviously don't understand swimming if you think that these suits aren't ruining the sport. The whole point of competitions such as swimming and sprinting is that it's down to the athlete - not what they wear. Football and Rugby are both different sports in this sense so to put them into the argument is stupid. Also, you say that swimming is "on the verge of being interesting for the general public" now that these suits are in the sport, and if you do think that then quite frankly you shouldn't be watching it. If you think that it takes a suit to make someone faster instead of harder work and the correct training methods (up to 14 hours a day in some cases) then go watch a different sport. Swimming and Sprinting, by tradition, have always been in this mould and look at how interesting sprinting can be. Swimming isn't "interesting" to the general public because it isn't watched.
The reason why I say there should just be one standard suit is so that swimming can return to the close competition that it once was, won only by the dedicated who deserve it not some person who has put in half the effort and just spent 300 quid on a suit to make him faster. This is also the reason why I think that the standard suit should be the LZR - it does make you "faster" but if everyone wears it, it's not going to make much difference and also it's not like the X-Glide and J01 in the sense that it's illegal.
Strife in swimming's fast lanes 11:35am on 01 Jun 2009 Interesting blog here, Matt. Personally, I think all the post-LZR suits should be banned and all professional athletes should simply be encouraged to wear the LZR, because then the sport will (again) become more about skill rather than what suit you wear. Wouldn't necessarily make the sport more interesting, but would certainly make it fair and encourage more people to train rather than rely on technology.

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