The New Speedo Speedo LZR

I don’t understand the ‘passive drag’ reduction thing. Too bad Kate isn’t smiling in the picture. She looks like an extra from the original Star Trek.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/sports/othersports/13swim.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The suit itself is old news…

Passive drag is essentially the drag that the suit creates alone.

http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/crese/projects/Swimming%20Projects/Effect%20of%20Swim%20Suit%20Design%20on%20Passive%20Drag.pdf

I can’t get your link to work…

How is it that the suit is “old” news? It was just made public this week. Or do you have inside info?