Quote of the Day: The UK’s Mark Foster

We agree with what he’s saying. Via sportinglife.com:

These new suits are giving people something like a two per cent advantage, which over my distance is half a second, half a body length. That is a huge difference.

When you look at it as a purist, I would like to see people back in swimming trunks, but that is not happening because technology is taking over and every manufacturer is making these new suits.

I don’t want it to get to a point, like in Formula One, where the person with the best design in their suit is going to win the race rather than it being the best swimmer.

I would rather we went back to swimming trunks for blokes and bikinis for women which, let’s face it, made the sport more attractive anyway. Now we all look like sharks or whales.

As a swimmer who boasts of six swimming gold medals (50 m freestyle) from the World Championships, Mark Foster knows what he is talking about.

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