Hi-tech kits unsuit-able says British swim champ

LONDON: British Olympic swimming champion Rebecca Adlington says she will not wear the new generation of superfast swimsuits in the belief that using high-tech kit constitutes an unfair performance enhancement, the Daily Telegraph reported Saturday on its website.

The muscle-compressing, buoyancy-enhancing suits have caused controversy and are likely to presage a slew of new records at the upcoming world swimming championships in Italy - but Arlington, the 400m and 800m freestyle Olympic champion, said she would not "compromise" her beliefs by competing in one.

"I would never in a million years take a drug to help me, so why would I wear a suit just to improve my performance? It's just not who I am," the Telegraph quoted the 20-year-old as saying of the new drag-reducing impermeable suits.