swimmer's zipper broken?

[dlammy]

Jessica Schipper's zipper on her swimsuit busted right before a event. Did anyone happen to see this?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...,2581588.story

[sal32]

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.....With only seconds to go, Trickett was choking back a vomiting attack. Worse, Schipper was panicking and in tears, as she struggled out of her futuristic, fastskin swimsuit - which had suffered what was later described as a "zipper malfunction" - and climb into a replacement.

"I was getting into my suit as we were going into marshalling and it wouldn't zip up. I had to do a quick change into another suit.
I got it on in the end, but I was probably a little bit stressed out."

It was later revealed that Trickett, swim-team officials and representatives of Speedo, makers of the LZR Racer, all helped a tearful Schipper strip and climb into a replacement. The team spokesman, Ian Hanson, confirmed that the suits are so tight that putting them on can take several minutes......

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would have loved to have been a fly on the wall
Didn't effect them at the end, as they took Gold and Bronze

[sbl3815]

Originally Posted by dlammy

Jessica Schipper's zipper on her swimsuit busted right before a event. Did anyone happen to see this?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...,2581588.story

That story caught me as well. And you'd think that these days, footage is almost is almost guaranteed to exist. What do we suppose NBC and others do with the tens of thousands of hours that are never shown? Dollars to donuts they never destroy an inch of film (or, I guess now I should say 'delete a byte of soft storage').