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by parineum 450 days ago
> 98% of swimming medals were won by someone wearing one of these suits.

> This gave a huge advantage to ... teams and swimmers with ... sponsorship deals

Is the former caused by the latter or caused by performance enhancement?

Speedo sponsoring all likely medal winners into their new product seems like a reasonable explanation. Given that I've never heard of another brand, I assume speedo has a fairly large budget for sponsorships. I don't know anything at all about swimming though, just wanted to throw that out there.