Bring On The Dolphin-Men!

Kevin Drum:

Despite all the hoohah about LZR suits, 3-meter pools and the insistent march of technology, the biggest drop [in swimming world record times] by far was between 1950 and 1980, when the 200m record plummeted by 15 seconds. In the past 28 years, by contrast, it's dropped only a sluggish 6 additional seconds. Not so amazing after all! I demand swimmers with genetically engineered gills in time for the 2012 Olympics.