Swimmer stripped of record as she tries to keep her boobs concealed

Swedish swimming star Therese Alshammar's attempts to keep her breasts concealed have cost her a world record.
On March 17, the 31-year-old hottie (check out her body here) who was once voted Sweeden's sexiest woman set the record in the 50m butterfly. She posted a time of 25.44sec, which was 0.02 of a second better than the record she set in Barcelona in June, 2007.
However, the former Olympic medalist was stripped of the record. FINA has a rule which mandates that swimmers can only wear one suit. Officials say swimmers sporting two high-tech suits have an unfair advantage as there is greater compression and flotation.

Alshammar was wearing two when she set the record. The idea was to keep her ta-tas covered up. Her suit was uni-sex so it wasn't quite cut for her body. As well, these suits are skin tight and some can become almost see-through when wet.

"I have obviously not understood the rules of the Australian championships. I was wearing a unisex suit which does not cover my chest completely so I need to wear an old cut-down suit underneath. I thought it was a modesty suit. It's just so I don't fall out the side, to feel more comfortable."

- Alshammar in The Australian

The meet she set the record in was in Australia. The Aussies have a rule allowing "modesty suits," but it only allows for bikini briefs.

"I thought a modesty suit would be a modesty suit," Alshammar told Channel 10 television. "I would almost claim that's a bit sexist saying that the men can cover their private parts up with briefs and women can only also wear briefs.

"I would totally, even though I'm Swedish, understand that a modesty suit would be to cover your modest parts. I guess you can't even wear a modesty suit any more."

- Alshammar in Asia One News

Appparently in Beijing, swimmers wearing more than one suit had great success. Italian hottie Federica Pellegrini set a record when she won the 200m freestyle at the Olympics.
Aussie babe Stephanie Rice is in favour of the extra suit ban and questions why an athlete would wear one as the rules have been publicized. Of course, Rice has proven to be one not to worry about her modesty. Remember the Olympian's controversial Facebook pics?