Why do synchronized swimmers use nose clips? Swimming is one of the most common sports in our real life. Now it is hot summer, and swimming has become the best way for everyone to keep fit. There are many kinds of swimming, such as synchronized swimming, so why do synchronized swimmers use nose clips?
Why do synchronized swimmers use nose clips 1? Friends who have had swimming experience should guess correctly-to prevent water from pouring back into the nose.
When swimming, water can easily choke into the nose, which can easily lead to cough, tinnitus and chest tightness, which is very uncomfortable.
Of course, you can suck back, suck the water back to your throat and spit it out. You can also blow your nose with your hands and blow the water out directly.
However, in such a large international event as the Olympic Games, there is still a race against time. If we use these two methods, it is not only unsightly, but also time-consuming.
More seriously, there will be health risks.
If you blow your nose too hard and pinch your nostrils, the air will flow to the middle ear cavity through the eustachian tube, causing the feeling of tight ears and tinnitus.
In severe cases, bacteria in the water will enter the middle ear from the eustachian tube, causing otitis media. Even the lungs suffocate, causing bronchitis.
Friends who have no swimming experience can experience the feeling of choking water into the nasal cavity, haha.
Therefore, it is very important to master the correct breathing method when swimming. Try not to breathe through your nose. Breathe through your mouth instead.
Wearing a nose clip means breathing through the mouth, not through the nose, which can prevent water from pouring into the nose, causing nasal discomfort or suffocation.
Then the question comes: As a water sport, why don't you need to wear a nose clip for swimming and diving?
Mainly because in synchronized swimming competitions, athletes often make many difficult moves in the water, such as handstand, and their noses are easier to get into the water.
However, swimming, diving and other water sports do not need to do complicated actions such as handstand in the water.
Therefore, synchronized swimmers need to wear nose clips to prevent nose discomfort and physical accidents.
Many friends may think that athletes wearing nose clips are just like wearing nose rings, and their facial expressions are strange and even a little funny.
However, for the sake of a smooth game, it can only be like this.
Of course, this kind of nose clip is specially made, provided that it does not affect the normal performance of athletes as much as possible.
In fact, you will get used to it after watching it for a long time, and even have a pleasing aesthetic feeling.
Synchronized swimming is different from other water sports.
It is a water sports event composed of swimming, skills, dance and music, and is known as "water ballet".
Synchronized swimming was listed as a performance event at the 65438-0952 Helsinki Olympic Games.
Synchronized swimming has been officially listed as an event since 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the China synchronized swimming team made a historic breakthrough and won the bronze medal. This is the first medal won by China Flower Tour Team at the Olympic Games.
Since then, China Flower Tour Team has won many international championships, ranking first in the world.
Especially in the 20 12 London Olympic Games, the 20 16 Rio Olympic Games and the Tokyo Olympic Games, China won the silver medal for three consecutive years, creating great achievements.
Why do synchronized swimmers use nose clips 2? Because the water resistance is relatively high. If an athlete moves head-down, water will enter the nasal cavity and be easily choked. Even bacteria that cannot be choked in water can enter the lungs from the nasal cavity, posing some threats to athletes. Therefore, athletes must wear nose clips. Although this thing is not very beautiful, it will ensure the safety of athletes after all. And you can't breathe through your nose after wearing a nose clip. You can only breathe through your mouth and wear it for no more than two hours.
We only breathe through the mouth when wearing a nose clip, although this does not conform to the principle of kinematics, because it limits the way we inhale oxygen, coupled with the underwater breath-holding exercise, our whole project is actually a state of extreme hypoxia for ordinary people in the competition, but even so, we will train ourselves to be completely used to it, because it ensures the safety of our respiratory tract.
What scares synchronized swimmers is that when our teammates accidentally touch our nose clips during the competition. The probability of trying to get it back into the water when this accident happens is very small. First of all, because we don't wear swimming glasses, our vision in water is almost equal to more than 500 degrees of myopia. The most important reason is that we must never stop. Before the next action, you can either get the nose clip back in one second (by luck), or continue to do the action to find a chance to wear a spare nose clip (hidden on the edge of your swimsuit).
Or you can keep choking until the end. There was an excellent French athlete in history, Didier. It is said that she was born with rhinitis, so she doesn't need to wear a nose clip. To ordinary people, she may be a tragedy, but in our eyes, she is a legend.
Why do synchronized swimmers use nose clips? In all kinds of water sports, many people have noticed that even if holding their noses will greatly affect the external image of beautiful athletes, they will still "choose" to play with nose clips. ......
In fact, this is a measure that synchronized swimmers have to take. After all, synchronized swimming requires a long handstand in the performance water. If there is no nose clip, it will easily lead to suffocation, which will make the game impossible to continue and even dangerous!
Of course, the nose clip is still "flawed", and the beautiful posture and wonderful movements of synchronized swimmers are the most worthy of attention and appreciation!
This is mainly because in synchronized swimming competitions, athletes often do handstands in the water. When athletes do handstands in the water, even if they can hold their breath, their noses are still easily poured into the water, thus causing the danger of suffocation. In order to protect the personal safety of synchronized swimmers, athletes are required to wear nose clips during training and competition.
In ordinary swimming competitions, athletes do not stand upside down in the water, and their noses are not easy to get into the water, so there is no need for special protection for their noses.
The nose clip worn by synchronized swimmers is not an ordinary clip in our life, it is specially designed for this sport. The nose clip is made of elastic steel wire and covered with special rubber material, which can not only ensure the nostrils to be pinched, but also won't hurt the athletes' skin.
Athletes wear nose clips, even if they are out of the water, it is difficult to breathe, which is why synchronized athletes open their mouths to breathe as soon as they are out of the water.
In fact, the nose clip is very beautiful, even the most beautiful beauty, as long as the nose clip, looks very strange. Fortunately, when the synchronized swimming competition was broadcast, there were not many close-ups of athletes' faces. After all, the audience mainly looks at their overall movements.
In the history of synchronized swimming, a famous athlete never wore a nose clip. She is the famous French player Virgini DeDiyou. Why doesn't she wear a nose clip? The reason turned out to be that her nose structure is different. Simply put, his nose has a "valve" that ordinary people don't have. Even if he stands upside down in the water, the water won't pour into her nose.
I have to say that Virginie Dedyou was born for synchronized swimming. She made good achievements in synchronized swimming and won three consecutive championships in the World Championships.