Canada's Olympic athletes' garb gets NRC wind tunnel testing
Some of the most important high-speed training for our Olympic athletes takes them inside a tunnel, where they stand very still.
There’s a wind tunnel at the National Research Council — not the big one near the airport but a smaller tunnel on Montreal Road — where air blows fast over and around their suits in a never-ending contest against drag.
Bodies moving fast through air create drag. Drag kills speed. But the right suit can minimize drag.
Annick D’Auteuil calls air &
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