Editing 2008 Summer Olympics (section)

=== Records ===
{{main|World and Olympic records set at the 2008 Summer Olympics}}
125 [[Olympic record]]s including 37 [[world records]] were set in various events at the Games. In swimming, sixty-five [[List of Olympic records in swimming|Olympic swimming records]] including 25 [[List of world records in swimming|world records]] were broken because of the use of the [[LZR Racer]], a specialized swimming suit developed by [[NASA]] and the [[Australian Institute of Sport]].<ref name="Physorg">{{cite web|url=http://www.physorg.com/news123416635.html=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919084240/http://www.physorg.com/news123416635.html%3Den |archive-date=19 September 2008 |title=Engineering the world's fastest swimsuit |publisher=Physorg |date=28 February 2008 |access-date=30 August 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Only two swimming Olympic records remained intact after the Games.