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This article makes two points: the swimsuit has a major impact on performance, and a pair of shoes doesn't. But why? If basketball players had to use leather sandals, and you let one guy use top athletic shoes, he would have a definite advantage. Maybe right now we just haven't realized that all the previous swimsuits were old leather sandals? I'm not convinced by the article's dismissal of tennis shoes and lack of explanation why swimsuits are somehow different. You can't rely only on the "broke records" argument because that falls as illustrated by the leather sandals example above. I just want to know more.