Why swimmers slap chests

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Do all the members on a team get a medal at the olympics eg. Winter coat. Two swim caps. Slap their breasts. This is an explanation of why swimmers do what they do even before they enter the pool. For the same reason as warming up before training. Cold muscles are bad when you are trying to do something. The coat keeps athletes warm and relaxes muscles, writes Temaly Tomley of Swimmers World. According to Tom Lee, this is primarily to prevent the goggles from slipping and falling and filling up with water.

It may be the secret of death to the chance that the swimmer will win. There are two reasons for this. One is to keep your goggles safe. Second, caps are generally made of two different materials. So a lot of times, especially at major meets where they do an introduction, athletes have to stand behind the blocks for quite a while after they're out on the deck before the race actually starts and having a procedure and a routine that you go through during that time is really helpful mentally so you're not just standing there letting the nerves get to you, having a step-by-step process of how you get ready for your race.

Swimming World Magazine is on board with this theory, noting slapping may help get a swimmer going for a race — lending credence to the argument that the slapping offers more of a psychological benefit to athletes. No matter the reason swimmers slap themselves, Twitter finds the practice odd, with several people tweeting comments like this one: "Whenever I see the Olympic swimmers slapping themselves all I can think of is Spongebob and Patrick slapping themselves.

But someone else had a new theory about why swimmers may engage in self-slapping, tweeting, "One of the olympics swimmers is apparently famous for intentionally slapping her thighs really loud before races to intimidate the other athletes and I can't stop thinking about how dolphins clap their teeth together as a threat display.