“It got very sophisticated because obviously the battery doesn’t last long and then we had to look at circuits and interrupters, so we have been working on it around two months with a crack team,” swimmer Andrea Fuentes told Reuters. The Spanish team was told they would be unable to wear suits embedded with waterproof lights by the sport’s governing body. Spain argues the reflective capability of fourteen pounds of sequins plastered on other ‘uniforms’ is equivalent to a few dinky lights. And some argue this isn’t a sport?
