Comments on: “Fast-skin suits.” A swimsuit - or a performance enhancer?

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:03:13 +0000

I feel sorry for past athletes whose records will be broken with the help of these suits and now are too old to test their performance with the new suits(yes they do improve performance). Thats why I think that new records should now have an asterisk or they should establish precisely what percentage improvement the suits confer and enhance the old records by that amount.

Forget Tibet…free Quebec.

By: Cy Nical

Cy Nical — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:08:33 +0000

Takes the level playing field away from the sport if the suit is not standardized for all competitors.Saying that you could say the same about many against the clock sports where an advantage could be gained through clothing choice ,i.e Skiing,cycling,athletics,speed skating ect.
Btw, what has that last post got to do with Belinda Goldsmiths’ ‘fast-skin suits’ blog?.

By: wendy cox

wendy cox — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:07:41 +0000

To Whom It May Concern:

Shame on you CNN/ABS/NBC/CBS/FOX/BBC!

It is so obvious that all media in the Western world are so biased against China and Chinese people, that you have no brain to understand the history and no courage to tell the truth.

When there were thousands of pro-China and pro-Olympic demonstrators showed their supports towards a peaceful torch carrying relay in San Francisco, all you cared and covered was the noise from a small group of pro-Tibet independence people who violated the law by climbing the Golden Gate Bridge and mocked the spirit of Olympic in the name of freedom.

In your coverage, you intentionally mislabeled the pro-China and pro-Olympic supporters as “protesters”.

When Dalai Lama said he supported Olympic game in Beijing all the way, you only reported his second part of the statement that no one can tell the pro-Tibet demonstrators to shut up.

No wonder the first thing that Chinese government did when the riots stared in Lhasa was to kick you out.

Let’s set the facts straight once for all:

1. Tibet is part of China for thousands years, Tibetan people ARE Chinese people. When they travel abroad, they carry Chinese passport. Even Dalai Lama himself has said it so many times that Tibet is part of China . If Dalai Lama admits himself that he is a Chinese, what is your problem?

2. We all have seen what happened in London and Paris. Those so called “peaceful demonstrators for the freedom of Tibet” acted exactly like terrorists. They fought against local law enforcements and attacked athletes who carried the torch, including a girl who was sitting on a wheelchair. What makes you think that those monks in Lhasa were just peacefully expressing their freedom of speech? Those are the same terrorist typed people who started the riots, are your media people just blind or you don’t dare to report the truth?

3. It is wrong to associate politics with Olympic. Those dirty politicians want to have their hands on anything they can touch to show the world that they are actually decent and caring advocates of human rights. Let me ask you a question: What about the right of athletes around the world who have worked so hard to represent their countries in Beijing and earn the medals of their dreams and be proud for the rest of their life? What about the rights of 1.3 billion Chinese people to witness the biggest sport event in the history of China, and be proud to be part of it by embracing the world ?

Further more, when you say “Free Tibet”, how exactly are you planning to liberate a Chinese land from China? Are you going to send your troops to China? Are you willing to go nuclear war with China?

It is time for you left-wing media liberals to tell the truth as it is.

Misleading your readers and audiences will only lead you to the bottom of the sea of ignorance. One day, you will find that no one will read your papers or watch your TV programs any more, not because you have nothing to offer, but because you have been offering nonsense to us and forcing your garbage down our throats!

Enough is enough!!!

Sincerely,

By: Mall

Mall — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:56:07 +0000

I wouldn’t recommend nude athletics, but Steve brings up a point. You either have to let people choose their swimsuits or make them go without. If you start choosing people’s clothes for them as they perform, you become no better than much of that for which China is criticized. Then again, that is where the next olympics will be, so maybe this year everyone should be told what to wear in honor of performing in Beijing.

By: Steve Evans

Steve Evans — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:31:12 +0000

In order to assure that the equipment is not providing an edge over other athletes then the athletes should compete in the nude, as I believe was done in the original Olympics.

By: Andrew L

Andrew L — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:20:31 +0000

I think the IOC need to establish a standard for swimsuits worn during swimming competition for both men and women. It’s the only thing that can be done to ensure fairness. We need to ensure that it is not the equipments used in the sport that make the difference, but it’s the athlete’s hard work. I think it’s should be standardized in every olympics sports category as well. Same type of bow & arrows for Archery, same shoes on everyone, same type of racquets on all sports such as tennis, badminton, squash, ping pong.