Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... With the London Olympics less than two months away, there’s more chaos in the swimsuit department. When aquatic leaders decided to ban rubberized bodysuits ...

Before the start of the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, Dick Shoulberg, the longtime Germantown Academy coach, watched as swimmers waited in line in a 50-meter hall with no ventilation just ...

Speedo's introduction of its drag reducing LZR Racer swimming outfit created a controversy during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. The suit worked so well that it was subsequently outlawed by the ...

Olympic swimmers broke 25 world records at Beijing's Water Cube over the course of the nine-day swimming program. To put that number into perspective, consider this: the only Olympics in which more ...

In one of the most unprecedented moves in sports business history, Nike has agreed to allow its Olympic swimmers to wear the Speedo LZR Racer suit for Olympic competition. Sources told CNBC that ...

In 2008, Speedo got too good at making swimsuits. Ninety-eight percent of medal winners that year wore the company's LZR Racer, a zip-sealed full-body suit that carried many top athletes — including ...