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Why Artistic Swimmers Use Gelatin In Their Hair (and why hairspray doesn’t stand a chance)
📷 Two swimmers move in perfect sync, matching shapes and timing at the surface. The strongest hair product in artistic swimming isn’t found in a beauty aisle. It’s found in your kitchen. At 5:30 a.m., before any music plays, the locker rooms reek of meaty, slightly sweet cooking gelatin, specifically, unflavored Knox gelatin. Cups…
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New Rules in Artistic Swimming
Introduction Artistic swimming is an incredibly beautiful sport, but if you’ve seen any videos, you may have noticed a significant change in the last few years. The structure of routines has shifted. Routines still feature showstopping choreography and amazingly fluid transitions, but all the teams seem to execute near-identical moves as soon as they…