Chinese name: sharkskin swimsuit, 2000
Say again: magic swimsuit, SPEEDO swimsuit, LZRRacer swimsuit, fast
English name: shark skin - like the swimsuit
Sydney Olympic Games swimming competition, Australia's Ian thorpe, wearing a black one-piece tight-fitting swimsuit, forward like waves in the shark, waves, winning three gold MEDALS, and he dressed in the sharkskin swimsuit also from now on the swimming world.
Sharkskin swimsuit is people according to their shape characteristics of nicknames, it has more resounding name: skin quickly, it is the core technology of imitation shark skin.Biologists found that shark skin surface rough v-shaped folds can greatly reduce the flow of the friction, make the body more efficiently through the surrounding water, shark can swim fast.Super stretch fabric fast surface is completely made of imitation shark skin surface.In addition, the swimsuit to fully mix the bionics principle: mimic human tendons, in the joint power for athletes to pull back;The imitation of human skin on fabrics, elastic.Experiments show that the fast skin fiber can reduce 3% of water resistance, swimming in 1% seconds can decide the outcome of this game has special significance.Root cause: "shark skin" use can increase the buoyancy of the polyurethane fiber material.In October 1999, fina officially allowed athletes wear fast skin.
And about what to wear swimsuit swim faster, people have explored many years.Swimmers in the water resistance, and the density of water, the front of the swimmer area, friction coefficient and is proportional to the square of the speed of swimmers, so reduce the positive area and the friction coefficient is the key to design low resistance swimsuit.

In the world championships in the 200 m freestyle final defeat by Germany contestant biedermann, Phelps's champion myth end)
Swimming world championships, fina announced a resolution, namely high-tech swimsuit (2010) began to disable.
Since 1999 allows for the use of the swimsuit, attracted a lot of criticism, many experts believe that the "application of high-tech in sharkskin swimsuit" contrary to the nature of the game without external force, in the strong pressure of public opinion, the federation in 2009 at the end of July made a decision:
Since 2010:1. The ban on using high-tech swimsuit in the game
2. Swimsuit material must be fabric
3. The bathing suit shall not cover limbs
4. The new rules before using the world record is not invalid
Sharkskin swimsuit for nearly 10 years of glorious history come to an end.