International sports, swimming: EPFL scientist to define “textile” in swimsuit row

Image: © 2009 Fina championships, Rome Lausanne, Switzerland and Rome, Italy (GenevaLunch) - Swimming records continue to tumble at the Fina World Championships in Rome but the main issue has been “When is a swimsuit “performance enhancing?” Professor Jan-Anders Manson at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Tecnnology) in Lausanne is leading a group of scientists to provide guidelines on acceptable materials. His group will ultimately decide what is a “textile” and what is not for new rules

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