Swimming Pool Costume Revolution "Shark Skin" Is So Amazing?

It is difficult to distinguish each face that is tightened by the swimming goggles if it is not shown in the live broadcast, and the national flag is subtitled to remind the audience.

The only sign that can be found on swimmers before departure is the trademark on their right chest, and a group of Speedo's letter combinations almost monopolize in the swimming finals of the Beijing Olympic Games.

These swimmers in Speedo have taken 30 of the 32 gold medals of indoor swimming in the Beijing Olympic Games, and have set many world records.

Did swimmers improve their water skills in groups or did Speedo swimsuit help?

"Any athlete who doesn't wear LZR Racer may end up sitting at home and watching NBC's broadcast."

This is the United States Swimming Coach Mark Schubert in the last Olympic Games before the selection contest, the United States Sports Illustrated.

At that time, many people regarded his prophecy as alarmist, and some even said that Mark Schubert was the biggest child of Speedo because the American swimming team was sponsored by Speedo.

Soon the swimmers in the swimming pool changed their group attitude, because the 48 swimming world records were broken before the first LZR Racer came to the Olympic Games in February.

Athletes who did not wear the new LZR Racer swimsuit of Speedo showed a hint of anxiety. After all, swimmers wearing LZR Racer broke the world record crazily enough to shake every athlete who yearns for gold medals.

It also includes several strength athletes of the Chinese swimming team. Since 2005, the Chinese swimming team has given up the cooperation with Speedo for 10 years, and has gone to Nike, Nike has signed the agreement with the swimming center for 1 million dollars for 4 years, but it has not yet expired.

Whether swimmers can choose swimming suits or not is a problem that needs to be specially approved by the State Sports General Administration's swimming management center.

Fortunately, Nike did not get entangled in the commercial agreement. The gate opened at the end of July, and Chinese athletes were free to choose swimsuits.

Soon, the Chinese swimming team ordered 80 sets of LZR Racer swimsuits for Speedo.

A similar emergency swimsuit is not only a special case of the Chinese swimming team. Similar athletes rush to switch to wear LZR Racer, also in Italy, Russia and other teams.

Kosuke Kitajima, the Japanese Frog King, also got the LZR Racer at the last minute of the Olympic Games. He was originally a signer of MIZUNO, a Japanese sports equipment giant. He could face the LZR Racer whirlwind that had been blowing up in the swimming pool. Kosuke Kitajima, who had always been confident and decisive, could not sit still.

He wrote on his blog: "abandoning MIZUNO's swimsuit made for me and changing to LZR Racer of Speedo company is really a very painful decision for me. In order to let all the supporters see my best performance, I hope to choose the best swimsuit at this stage."

In addition to learning the skin characteristics of sharks from the perspective of bionics, swimsuits are more commonly used in formal naming practices than sharks, and the swimsuit similar to Nike and Adidas is also commonly referred to as shark skin.

At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the Fast Skin swimsuit of Speedo company was often referred to as the first generation of shark skin. The swimming events of that Olympic Games broke 15 world records, of which 13 were broken by Fast Skin swimsuit, and athletes wearing Fast Skin included 83% of all medals in swimming events.

It was the amazing achievements of the Olympic swimming competitions that made the world realize that the upgrading of swimsuit's technology content could directly affect the outcome of the competition.

Since then, Speedo has upgraded its second generation Fast Skin FS II, which claims to be 4% static water resistance than the first generation of the Athens Olympic Games.

Apart from Mike Phelps's Fast Skin FS II, he won 6 gold and 2 bronze, but did not take the lead in swimming pools like Sydney.

At this time, Nike realized the technological prospect of the swimsuit and pursued the Speedo. In addition, it had abundant funds as a sponsorship fund and seized a lot of Speedo. After that, Adidas also joined the competition in the swimming pool.

Speedo has reduced the weight by upgrading the so-called third generation shark skin FS-PRO, Nike corresponds to Nikeskip, Adidas is the newly designed conjoined swimsuit.

Speedo originally planned to decrypt LZR Racer at the end of 2007, that is, the fourth generation of shark skin. In order to compress competitors to catch up with R & D space, Speedo had been deliberately suppressed for several months until February 2008 when LZR Racer was unveiled.

This is also effective. Nike and Adidas have no time.

In fact, just like previous generations of swimsuits are constantly upgrading technology, the key direction of LZR Racer core technology is to reduce drag.

The main material of the bathing suit is a fiber material called LZR Pulse, originally developed for the previous generation of Fast Skin FS-PRO. The basic fiber material is only 104 grams per meter and has a polyimide coating on its fiber, which can effectively waterproof.

The traditional stitching process was abandoned. The connection of LZR Racer parts was strengthened by ultrasonic wave after bonding and adhering through a binder, which effectively made the swimsuit surface smooth and smooth.

In addition, when choosing LZR Racer, athletes must choose two smaller than their usual swimsuit so that they can give full play to LZR Race.