NEW WORLD RECORDS

ARE YOU WONDERING WHY SO MANY NEW WORLD RECORDS HAVE BEEN SET BY SWIMMERS AT THE OLYMPICS???

Hey It's Nazzy,

If your like me, you have been glues to the summer Olympics! More specific the swimming competitions! Have you noticed how many new world records were set this year? So far, there have been 21 new world records set by swimmers at this year's Olympics. SEVEN have been set by MICHAEL PHELPS alone . . . (which is just ONE shy of the total world records set at the Athens Games in 2004.)

(--Check out a full list of all swimming world records here. The records that were set in Beijing . . . in the "location" column . . . have been set at this year's Games . . .)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_records_in_swimming#Long_course_.2850_metres.29--

Well, I might have figured out why so many records have been broken . . . --The pool in Beijing is about 10-feet deep . . . which is about THREE feet deeper than most pools. A deeper pool means there's less turbulence in the water . . . and that helps swimmers move faster.

The other thing I discovered, Michael Phelps is part fish! LOL! GO USA!!! -- Nazzy

(New Scientist)