220 Triathlon

WHY FLOATING IS KEY TO FASTER SWIMMING

PROFESSOR BEN BRIGHT

As the former head coach of British Triathlon's Olympic Programme, Ben Bright oversaw our most successful Games to date. He's also a former triathlon Olympian (Sydney 2000) and now provides consultancy work for British Triathlon.

One of the reasons swimming can be so challenging is that water is quite hard to move through. Water is about 800 times more dense thanunsurprisingly, it creates a lot of drag when swimming.

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