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Oct 27, 2017

Swimming Canada Looks To Improve Relay Times With TritonWear

With the hope of reaching relay improvement at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, the Canadian swim team has announced a partnership with TritonWear, a Toronto-based sports technology company. The use of TritonWear’s technology beginning next month will allow coaches and athletes to have access to information that has historically been unavailable, allowing the team to […]

Jan 17, 2017

Canadian Swimming Federation To Use New Wrist-Based Wearable Swimlytics In Training

Swimming Canada — the Canadian swimming federation — began working with a new Canadian-designed tech-based training device, Swimlytics, last fall. Dr. John Barden, a kinesiology professor at the University of Regina, created Swimlytics to help swimmers increase their efficiency. The small wrist-based wearable was in use before Rio, but Barden was not completely confident his device […]