{"id":455540,"date":"2020-11-25T13:30:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T20:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=455540"},"modified":"2020-11-30T16:01:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T23:01:26","slug":"caeleb-dressel-donning-speedo-tech-suit-to-chase-20-second-barrier-in-50-freestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/caeleb-dressel-donning-speedo-tech-suit-to-chase-20-second-barrier-in-50-freestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Caeleb Dressel Donning Speedo Tech Suit to Chase 20-Second Barrier in 50 Freestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> will partner with Speedo in an attempt to break the 20-second barrier over short-course meters in a 50-meter freestyle, with Dressel wearing a Fastskin LZR Racer.<\/p>\n

The attempt will be released via social media at noon Eastern time on Dec. 10. The attempt requires Dressel donning the now-banned LZR racer, part of the Fastskin series that launched 20 years ago and ushered in the \u201csuper suit\u201d revolution that downed records the world over.<\/p>\n

Banned in 2010<\/a>, some of those records remain until the present<\/a>, and Dressel will don the suit made by his sponsor to commemorate that monumental shift in swimsuit technology. The LZR Racers, which were launched in 2008 and designed in consultation with NASA<\/a>, were made of 50 percent polyurethane, the non-textile fabric able to compress the body more than 70 times tighter than other suits to reduce resistance in the water.<\/p>\n

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