Nike permanently affixes goggles to Olympic swimmers' eyes

If you're planning on swimming in the Olympics, you've got to be prepared to go the extra mile to shave off a few hundredths of a second off your time. It's not enough to have laser remove all your body hair and wear rubber band underwear anymore, now Nike wants you to use their latest drag-killing device, the strapless water goggles. How does it work? Two independent goggle lenses get afixed to your eye sockets with medical-grade adhesive (read: superglue). Say, while you're at it, why don't you just get your toes and fingers sewn together like a duck?

[Gus @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

Looks like no nore eyebrows for swimmers.

[Brianosaurus @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

Just coat the outsides with silver/mirror and get a heads up display in there...

[EdZ @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

Is her name Molly by any chance?

[Anthony Martin @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

Why don't they just implant titanium anchors so the lenses can snap in place. Then they can be removed and all that's left are the anchors to explain to people at the pub.

[IslandBoy @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

bring it all, your performance enhancing drugs, body transformation operations and cybernetic enhancements. How far can we push the human body sod side effects dammit i want to see freaks tailored for specific events. It's not cheating if everyone is doing it and they are not competing against other normal/boring athletes.

[Graham @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

Nike actually did this with a pair of sunglasses for the '96 Olympic track and field team:
http://ideo.com/portfolio/re.asp?x=50049

[hobgoblin @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

one problem with that is that the better a contrys economyis the better their athelets become. right now any nation can attend as long as they can afford to send atheletes. one way to deal with this would be to set up a seperate event in the same area similar to how the paraolymics are held after the olympics are over but useing the same facilitys. still, im a bit split about the whole idea...

[SwimFan @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

To a swimmer these goggles are one of the ways to reduce drag, a swimmer's enemy. They are very helpful in a sport when a tenth of a second is the difference between a victory and a lose.