The Rio women’s 100m free final was slated to be one of the most exciting races. While it did turn into an epic showdown, it wasn’t at all as predicted.
Our data science team ponders: as young swimmers continue to grow in age, height, and ability, how do these changes affect their breaststroke development?
How does age impact when and how a swimmer ramps up their stroke rate, as opposed to increasing their DPS, when trying to improve freestyle swimming speed?
Since we wanted to analyze how Stroke Rate and DPS influence the total speed, we did a deep dive (pun intended) into the data and crunched a few numbers.
