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Polyurethane swimsuits were banned in 2010

The governing body acted after 43 world records fell at the 2009 World Championships Full-body suits made partly of polyurethane trapped air and aided buoyancy, and records tumbled in Rome in 2009. From January 2010 the rules limited suits to textile fabric, and men's suits could no longer cover the torso. The records set in the suit era still stand. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The governing body acted after 43 world records fell at the 2009 World Championships. The figure is taken from World Aquatics, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.