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Australia’s Elite Teenage Swimmers Get First Look At New Tech

The future stars of Australian swimming are getting coached, not only in technique, but in technology that could help them achieve further success in the pool. At the beginning of July, Swimming Australia, the nation’s governing body for competitive swimming, announced its “NextGEN” team of 22 rising teenage swimmers. Those teens recently attended a camp from […]

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The World’s First Swim Tracking App For The Apple Watch

Frequently left out to dry, Chris Moisan and dedicated swimmers across the globe may soon have a new tool to combat an age-old setback. “We’ve all been tracking our runs and our rides for so long and swimming has always been missed off our calorie counts, it’s been missed off our aggregate fitness activity,” said […]

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Wearable Technology Dives into the Pool with Xmetrics

Metrics is defined as the “standards of measurement by which efficiency, performance, progress or quality of a plan, process or product can be assessed.” According to Wikipedia, “Biomechanics is the study of the structure and function of biological systems such as humans…by means of the methods of mechanics,” which, scientifically, is concerned with the behavior […]

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