USA Swimming voted to ban the use of tech suits by 12-and-younger swimmers on Saturday at the United States Aquatic Sports (USAS) Convention in Jacksonville, Florida. The board made one amendment ...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern. With the holiday and championship season coming up, it seems like it’s the time when people are in the market for brand new tech suits. For ...

At this year's boys' state swim championships, about 95 percent of the athletes wore a high-tech swimsuit. Whether it was the Speedo LZR Racer or the Blue Seventy, times were dropped and records ...

FINA, international swimming's governing body, has voted to ban the high-tech body suits that ruled the Beijing Olympics. The U.S. has long pushed for the ban. Jim Wood, president of USA swimming ...

That August, 43 world records fell at the World Championships in Rome. FINA, swimming's international governing body, decided that enough was enough and banned all tech suits.

John Leonard, the head of the American Swimming Coaches Association, wrote an editorial earlier this year imploring federations to ban the LZR and other high-tech suits in age-group competition.

By letting the race for the most high-tech swimsuits go virtually ungoverned, FINA deflected attention from the swimmers to their suits, slighting athletes and cheapening the standards set since ...

Speedo’s 2024 Olympics suits incorporate elements from sharks and space exploration There’s a noticeable difference between a regular training suit and a tech suit.

Tech suits A swim suit seems like the simplest form of athletic equipment, but the fastest suits can cost up to $600. “And they are only good for 10 to 12 swims,” Auburn’s Bullard said.