Swimmer's Daily

Category: Equipment

  • FINA Approves New Arena, Adidas, Mizuno Suits

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    ‘POWERSKIN R-EVOLUTION +, maintains all the innovative features already introduced with the POWERSKIN R-EVOLUTION suit (one single piece of fabric, zero seams on the front and just two low-profiled, thermo-fused sews (seams) and incredible light fabric: only 99g/sqm, ) with additional PU [polyurethane] panels, strategically placed to improve muscle compression’ Source: SwimNews

  • Blue Seventy, The Suit You Never Heard Off

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    Turns out that there is a suit made by New Zealand company Blue Seventy, that is competitive with the Speedo LZR and its likes, already out there, and even lasts for up to 25 races. Read swimnetwork.com

  • Mizuno, Asics And Descente Respond To Japanese Deadline

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    The Japanese Swimming Federation gave the three Japanese sportswear companies until May 30 to come up with an outfit comparable to the LZR Racer, which they then have unveiled by now. Asics and Descente have used a new “world’s fastest swimwear material” called Biorubber Swim-SCS Fabric and polyurethane, while Mizuno say they have a new…

  • Fun Angle On The Speedo Controversy

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    With outsider points like “In the same way that most men believe red sports cars are speedier than those of other hues, they believe Speedos go faster than normal trunks” and “Well, on behalf of readers, a friend of mine examined them to see if there was obvious NASA input. There were no rockets, fuel…

  • Fight Mosquitoes By Putting Fish In The Pool

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    With foreclosure season coming up now, Californians are fighting mosquitoes the natural way by releasing small but effective fish called Gambusia Affinis into the abandoned pools. Source: ABC News Picture courtesy of NOZO at Wikimedia Commons

  • Vendt Management Boycots TYR

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    Premier Management Group (PMG) responds to TYR lawsuit against Eric Vendt, stating that they “will no longer sign our clients with TYR Sport, effective immediately”. Source: SwimNews

  • Japan Considers Speedo LZR For Beijing 2008

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    Their current contract prohibits swimmers wearing anything but Mizuna, Asics and Descente (an Arena brand); but now the Japanese considers allowing also Speedo LZR, if not the three contracted companies improve each of their current models to be equally as good as the new Speedo swimwear by May 30. Source: SwimInfo

  • TYR Sues Speedo, Schubert, Vendt and USA Swimming

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    According to the Los Angeles Times, TYR has decided to sue Speedo, USA Swimming and Mark Schubert for having “combined to engage in a campaign of falsely disparaging the products of Speedo’s competitors, including TYR, for the purpose of inducing competitive swimmers to refrain from doing business with Speedo’s competitors”. And American swimmer Eric Vendt…

  • Nike Allows Sponsored Athletes To Use Other Brands

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    While Arena is trying to keep its sponsored swimmers at bay by promising a new suit at the end of the month, Nike sort of just gives up, telling its swimmers that they are allowed to choose their own suits as long as the possible logos of other brands are blacked out.