Comments on: Some use homophobia to fight swimming briefs?

By: SFTom

SFTom — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:06:28 +0000

This is not new … the same concerns have been raised for decades.

By: swim naked

swim naked — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:59:51 +0000

I’m with Ossurworld, the only way to alleviate competitive advantage is for swimmers to compete nude. This doesn’t mean that the sport becomes just a big naked pool party, but it will end the debate on who has the faster suit. I’d like to remind every one that the olympic games in greece were all nude precisely for this reason. Furthermore, the word gymnasium means “to train in the nude.” Just my two cents.

By: RPreskop

RPreskop — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:02:17 +0000

The speedo racing brief is less common because an increasing number of Americans are a bunch of ultra-conservative, boring prudes. The sport of swimming has been ruined by these hideous looking, robotic like body suits. If a guy is so damned scared and embarrassed to wear a speedo brief in competitive swimming, then it is time for him to pursue another sport. The speedo brief is still the best suit for competitive swimming because it has the least amount of drag which reduces a swimmers speed. These body suits do not make swimmers faster that is a bunch of propaganda from the companies pushing these ridiculous outfits. The only thing that makes a swimmer faster is practicing the sport and working on form. This claim that the high tech bodysuits will make a person faster in the pool is baseless bullshit. I would not be surprised if the ignorant, religious right wing has had some strong influence in this issue.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:00:46 +0000

I really don’t get the homophobia argument. I can speak for myself most of the rowing team, and a few on the swim team at college when I say that no one cared. To the contrary it really seemed like most of the guys enjoyed showing off and for good reason.

By: ossurworld

ossurworld — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:45:11 +0000

Let them all swim naked, like sperm.

By: Biff Baxter

Biff Baxter — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:59:27 +0000

When speedo briefs were worn, the networks never showed full frontal shots except waist up. The only time we knew they wore briefs was long angle shots. Cowards!

By: Alvin

Alvin — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:16:47 +0000

Aren’t these new suits supposed to be faster (and quite more expensive) than the Speedo-style suits? It seems to me like the people who “have-not” want to stick with the Speedos while the people “who” have want the new suits and everyone is either pulling lame excuses out of thin air or are hiding the real reasons why they want what they want.

By: Edwin J

Edwin J — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:50:05 +0000

Isn’t what you wear suppose to help you while you’re in the race, large or small (suit that is) whatever works, wear it.

Maybe less mind in the on the center of the body would help, isn’t the guy first at the finish line is what the sport is all about!

By: James

James — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:16:33 +0000

I noticed this American hang-up over swimsuits on a Caribbean cruise. Most of the guys on the snorkeling expedition in Grand Cayman wore board shorts while I wore square-cut trunks. The excursion hosts, a pair of Jamaicans, wore briefs!

By: stuartindigo

stuartindigo — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:58:59 +0000

Afraid of speedos because they are gay?

That would imply that sprinters would ditch the lycra and go back to shorts and vest for the same reason. And they don’t – why – for the same reason that swimmers want these new suits, a slight, but measurable performance advantage.