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Many people like to watch sports competitions, and the excitement of tension and the hard work of the athletes are connected to the hearts of our spectators. I don't know if you have paid attention to the small details of the athletes on the field while watching the tense results of the game?
You must know that the athletes who usually play are the elite of one in a million, and every small detail cannot be ignored, because it is likely to be a big problem that affects the championship.
This kind of detail is even more important for the athletes in the swimming competition, and after watching the videos of many swimming competitions, I found a small detail, that is, all the swimmers participating in the competition are "a dime a dime".
They were all clean, they didn't look like a single body hair, and they were bare. So why don't they have any hair? Is it a secret that all athletes have to shave their hair?
Pre-game hair removal is very useful
A very popular stalk on Douyin before: everyone has hair on their bodies. But most people choose to remove excess bare hair from their bodies in order to look good in their clothes and look good visually.
However, swimmers do not choose to remove hair for the sake of looking good, but to allow themselves to have a better competition condition in the competition and perform extraordinarily, so they will remove all the hair on their bodies.
Those who swim will have a feeling of it, they will feel very tired if they don't swim for long, and the thin swimsuit on their body feels like a burden dragging their bodies and consuming their physical strength, and girls with long hair are more tired, and the long hair is even heavier when the water is wet.
If you accidentally fall off your swim cap and your hair falls apart, you will feel noticeable resistance and drag when you swim forward.
By the same token, every second of a swimmer's life is crucial when competing, so there is hardly any extra resistance on the body.
In order to have better results and swim faster, hair removal before the competition can be said to be a must-have item for swimmers.
The smooth body allows the athlete to feel as comfortable in the water as a fish, why can the fish swim so fast in the water?
The tight scales and smooth mucus on the fish's body are indispensable conditions for its speed in the water, and the tight scale athletes can have strong muscles through their usual training, and the smooth mucus athletes are incomparable, and can only make up for it by making their body surface smooth and flawless.
The body is smoother, the resistance in the water is less, and the speed of swimming is faster.
Athletes are not always hairless, and only choose hair removal before competitions, and they still have hair when they usually train or something.
Then you may have to ask, since hair removal has so many benefits for athletes in swimming competitions, why don't you also remove hair during normal training?
That's because having hair on the athlete's body during training can achieve better training results.
In normal training, the hair on the body will produce some resistance, affect their speed, but also increase their burden and consumption, in order to have faster results, then they have to swim harder, speed up their speed, improve their skills.
Just like a runner who usually drags a heavy load behind him during training, he can still run fast with a heavy load, let alone the speed and power that bursts out after unloading the weight.
In addition, swimmers usually soak in the pool, although the pool hygiene standards of training are definitely qualified, but long-term soaking in the water is also very damaging to the skin of the body.
Sun Yang, a famous swimming champion, once said that because he spent too much time training in the pool, the fingerprints of his fingers were blistered.
If there is hair on the skin, it can also better protect the skin, especially the intimate parts of women, and some hair is needed to protect it to avoid the problem of infection caused by dirt.
Therefore, swimmers will choose to slowly remove hair for a period of time before the competition, firstly, to allow themselves to better enter a silky and resistance-free state, and secondly, to allow themselves to adapt to the feeling of entering the pool without hair protection.
Swimmers in order to win the championship
Hair removal is just a very common occurrence in swimming, and every athlete prepares for the competition, and there are many other athletes who are careful to improve their speed.
Everyone is familiar with swimsuits, and you can see athletes wearing swimsuits every time you are interviewed, but I don't know if you have noticed that their swimsuits look unusually tight.
In particular, the girls' swimsuits look even more stranglesome, completely stretching the girls' bodies inside the clothes, just to avoid causing more resistance during the game.
There was also a female athlete who joked that no matter how good her body was, it would be in vain to wear a swimsuit during the competition, and she would be strangled into a flat horse.
And it is this tight swimsuit that is a great tool to reduce the athlete's own resistance, which can better improve their speed.
Phelps, the American swimming champion, can be described as a hegemon in the Olympic Games in previous years, and no one can beat him.
In addition to his own talent and hard work, he wore that sharkskin swimsuit was also one of his secret weapons, winning multiple championships and breaking world records, and was called the "shark overlord" in the pool at the time to highlight his strength in swimming.
Why is his swimsuit a secret weapon? Because it wraps the muscles of the person to the maximum, wraps the wearer's body extremely smoothly, and minimizes the resistance in the water.
Then some people are going to say, is it really related to clothes? Can't it be that the people themselves are superior in strength? It's okay to question them, after all, there is no definite evidence.
In 2009, after international competitions issued a declaration banning the use of swimsuits made of this material in competitions, Phelps's results deteriorated year after year, until 2012, when he announced his retirement to recuperate.
It can also be said that his results are not as good as before because of his poor physical condition, but the data shows that the "careful opportunity" he wears in a sharkskin swimsuit has really helped his results a lot.
In addition to this, Phelps will also wear two layers of swimming caps during the game, knowing that one swimming cap is enough to tighten his head, does it mean that he wears two layers?
Later, he was asked by the reporter about the reason in the interview, there was no other meaning, just to better reduce the resistance during the competition, the outer layer of the swimming cap is more restrictive, can wrap the head shape more smoothly, and also to prevent himself from falling off the swimming goggles during the competition.
In order to avoid the situation of falling swimming goggles, there is also a rule for wearing two layers of swimming caps, and there is a strict fixed order and multiple layers of protection.
At one Olympic Games, the American woman lost her cap shortly after the competition, but thankfully, the hat was so sturdy that it supported her through the race, and she also set a new world record in the event.
Of course, striking iron also needs its own hardness, and her own strength is excellent, so it is natural to get such results.
However, it is worth mentioning the "caution" of wearing a double swimming cap, if you only wear a swimming cap, you will also take the swimming goggles off when you fall off, and the eye discomfort and hair resistance will have an unimaginable impact.
epilogue
Every competition will have hidden rules and "caution" behind each competition, but in any case, the starting point of all this is to have a good result and add glory to the country.
Swimmers soak in the pool all day, day after day, year after year, and only they know how hard it is.
Many people say that athletes are exchanging their lives and bodies for results, this sentence sounds noncommittal, which athlete retired without injuries, and there are many athletes who have to fight hard for the sake of the country and their own honor even if they are injured.
Resources:
Hair is actually the "natural enemy" of sports superstars, Filipino fish removes hair before the game (picture)_CCTV.com_China Central Television
Red Star News: Can shaving improve performance? (baidu.com)