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How does weight of shoes affect your speed?
Wearing a pair of heavy shoes obviously will cost you more energy. However, how exactly is your speed affected?
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Haunting about death helps players play better
Reminders about death can improve the performance of athletes due to the self-esteem mechanism to reduce the fear of the brain.
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The Olympic pool was still green and now began to stink
Authorities blamed everything from people to pH but there is no official conclusion yet.
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Swimming pools help fishermen break world records
American scientists point out that swimming pools and swimming lanes have certain effects on athletes' performance.
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The meaning of physical laws for Olympic athletes
Taking advantage of physical laws can help Olympic athletes maximize their strength, speed and movement to achieve the highest performance.
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The advantage helps Michael Phelps equalize the Olympic's thousand-year record
Michael Phelps has the perfect body and the ability to concentrate, always working hard to win the Olympic gold medal continuously.
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What effect does an Olympic athlete's glasses wear?
At the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, in the shooting game, we witnessed many fierce matches, and in most of these matches, what appears most often is probably the slightly g…
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Method to expose athletes' doping tricks
Since athletes started using doping in competitions, sports officials have always had a headache to try to expose this fraud.
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Secret helps Usain Bolt run the fastest in the world
Scientific research shows that the special structure of two knees can be the main cause of the overwhelming success of Jamaican sprinter athletes.
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What do Olympic athletes tape up on people to do?
This odd act is of no use or just one way
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After the Olympics, the fate of billion-dollar works became so disastrous
Investment costs up to several tens of billions of dollars, but when Olymic passes, these massive buildings carry one
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Why is the Rio 2016 Olympic swimming pool changing color after a night?
Algae blooms, copper oxidation or problem water filters are speculative reasons given by experts to explain temporarily this strange phenomenon.
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This is the fastest way to swim in the world, but it is not present in competitions
Which swimming method is the fastest? Swimming, butterfly swimming? All are wrong, the fastest swimming method simulates fish movements.
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The navel decided to win and lose in sports
What determines success is not an athlete with an innate talent, but a position of their umbilical cord compared to the rest of the body.
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Why are ancient Greek statues naked?
We often see Greek statues on display in many museums in the world in a nude state.