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Swimsuit Wars

The rise and fall of a swimsuit so fast it had to be banned

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Remo Giuffré
Mar 26, 2026
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Swimsuit wars. Photo credit: AAP

Australian Cameron McEvoy’s recent 50-metre freestyle world record swim of 20.88 seconds is all the more remarkable given what he was wearing – or rather not wearing.

In 2004 the research and development division of swimwear company Speedo conducted a computational fluid dynamics study. What it told them was that viscous d…

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