If you’re a pool swimmer and you laid out for one of those technical suits, FINA says you can still wear them in open water (well, with possible reservations for certain materials.) OW pro Petar Stoychev is quoted in an entry on 10K Swimmer as noting that in OW swim, there are no world records–you race not against time, but against your fellow swimmers.
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