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Humans, badly evolved for water, racing each other through it anyway.
means Sports and activities performed in water, like swimming, diving, and water polo.
from From Latin 'aqua' meaning water, which flowed into English 'aquatic' by the 1600s. The '-ics' suffix, the same one that turns 'athlete' into 'athletics,' arrived later to bundle the various water-sports into one tidy category — officialese stamped on something as old as the first human who ever raced a friend across a river.
- drag physics
- shaving body hair measurably lowers race times
- breathing cost
- turning to breathe slows swimmers more than not breathing
- pool depth
- olympic pools are deep to kill wave turbulence
- origin sport
- swimming debuted at the first modern 1896 olympics