Michael Phelps has the photo of the day

Cause of this:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/07/29/sports/29swim.1.600.jpg

I love the mix of embrace and disdain in that article:

Dr. Julio Maglione, the president of FINA, said a scientific committee would be convened to determine what constitutes a “textile” and the process could delay the ban until the spring of 2010 — time enough for dozens more records to fall.

“Well, then, they can probably expect Michael not to swim until then,” Phelps’s coach Bob Bowman said after the loss. “I’m done.”

vs.

“I’m really in favor of the suits because we’re the most popular boring sport in the world and so we need and only survive on records,” Rogan said. “So we’re going to need whatever we can do to keep doing records.”

one of those suits was on sale for £20 in my local nike shop - I can barely swim, but it would've made fetching beach attire

side-effect of the swimsuit arms-race: swimmers squeezing into the smallest suits possible and busting the seams -- saw something yesterday about some dude who didn't have time to change his busted suit before his leg of a relay and so swam it with his butt hanging out out his dolphin suit. Accompanying pic was LOL+NSFW

Entirely predictably, in the Daily Mail it's an ambitious woman who is humiliated instead.

Crikey, I've missed a real bargain - £318 these cost!

takes a few hours to get into ones and the pros have them custom made to fit, then use them once.

They certainly don't train in them.

Entirely predictably, in the Daily Mail it's an ambitious woman who is humiliated instead.

Plus entirely predictable DM reader reaction.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! That's cheered me up for the day!

“It’s sort of like the baseball era in steroids,"

oops

Less photo of the day worthy but notable. In a 'don't do that' sense:

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/hp10-15-09i.jpg

Nick Cave why you swimming?