Rome, July 28 (DPA) Swimmers competing in Rome at the swimming world championships have said they are looking forward to a ruling by the sport's controlling body that will prohibit bodysuits and greatly restrict the type of textiles that can be used.

Ariana Kukors, who smashed her own women's 200m individual medley world record by nearly a second and became the first women to swim under two minutes seven seconds when she won gold in 2:06.15, said Monday that she welcomed the change.

'It will be very difficult for others to break all these amazing world records. But that simply means that for a while the focus will not be on the times.'

Rice said that she believed it would take some time for swimmers to get back to the level at which they are now.

'But swimmers will then simply be ranked on their positions, but you will still have first, second and third places, even if they do not have the times that are being achieved now.