In a sport where gold and silver can be separated by a fraction of a second, many of the world’s top swimmers now scour data for even the smallest edge.
Kate Douglass of the United States often wears a device in training that measures her movement through the water.Credit...Al Bello/Getty Images
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- July 29, 2024
Kate Douglass, a statistics graduate student and the second-fastest swimmer in the world this year in two Olympic swimming events, has always been good with numbers.