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Message: [QUOTE="Jeba, post: 2223558, member: 1827"] I see your point Flutterby but I disagree. For example, if I took on Phelps in a pair of DT's, he'd smash me no doubt. At the end of the day me in DT's would pull in the ladies like bees to honey, but that's beside the point. If I took on Phelps and we were both wearing the suits they wore in Beijing he would beat me by even further. Let's just say they make you 10% faster (not saying they do, just using a simple number for the example). We'll say Phelps in a normal swimsuit swims 50 metres at 2.2 metres/second = 22.73 seconds We'll use my 50m PB of 32.05 seconds = 1.563 metres/second. So Phelps has 0.637 metres/second advantage over me 2.2 x 10% = 0.22, and with the Beijing suit he swims = 2.42 metres/second 1.56 x 10% = 0.156, and with the Beijing suit I swim = 1.716 metres/second With the suit he has 0.704 metres/second advantage over me So Phelps gains another 0.067 seconds on me if we both wear the Beijing suit. It may not seem like much but in an event like the Olympics it is very often the difference between gold and silver. [/QUOTE]

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