Remember Phelps mania? God, I know I do. I don’t remember the events of the Olympics as much as I remember the contours of Michael Phelps’s amazing abs. You could grate cheese on those things.
What? Don’t pretend you didn’t notice.
And don’t pretend you’re surprised. The Hoomster can’t be all purity and light all the time; she has eyes.
He reminds me of this guy I was good friends with in high school, but Phelps isn’t as handsome. Sick physique, though. Jesus. (His diet is absolutely disgusting, though. He eats enough in one day to feed a family of four in a given third-world country for a week.)
Anyway, all of this went down on Saturday, December 19, 2009. Michael Rock is a 22 year old who studies law at Manchester University. He swam Phelps’s favorite race, the 200 meter butterfly, and he beat our Human Dolphin.
No, not this human dolphin:
Gross, you guys.
Anyway, Michael Rock was wearing a polyurethane bodysuit with body panels, designed by NASA, which will be illegal as of January 1, 2010. Michael Phelps was wearing a textile jammer that will be legal under the new rules for swimsuits, and most experts and commentators are agreeing that the difference in suits is the only reason that the British law student beat the Human Dolphin.
As further evidence to support this claim, it’s been noted that since swimmers started wearing this polyurethane suit with water-resistant fabric and stitch-free construction and welded seams and those space-age-y panels, 250 world records have fallen in those 20 months.
And since the suit is soon to be illegal, the sport is transported back to the days where it took strength, stamina, and talent to win instead of NASA technology.
Yeah, this isn’t really related to law, but I thought it was interesting.
