"No comment. I don't know how you even know about that, said the genial Shimabukuro, who otherwise was forthcoming about all manner of topics during an interview with The Associated Press about his team and his sport while sitting in the stands at Milwaukee's Pettit National Ice Center, site of the Olympic trials for long track in January. No comment. Nope. Nope, Shimabukuro said. Respectfully, no comment."
"According to Shane Domer, U.S. Speedskating's chief of sport performance, the idea behind the program was to increase athletes' aerodynamic efficiency by reducing the amount of drag they create pushing against the air during a race. For years, speedskaters, like cyclists, trained in wind tunnels to study that phenomenon. Now, Domer explained, it happens virtually: An app lets skaters scan their bodies, creating a digital twin."
Slippery Fish is a covert program that uses app-based scans and computational fluid dynamics to improve speedskaters' aerodynamic efficiency and shave fractions of a second. Team coach Ryan Shimabukuro declined to comment when the program's name was mentioned. U.S. Speedskating's chief of sport performance, Shane Domer, identified the program's aim as reducing air resistance and improving form. The process replaces traditional wind-tunnel testing by creating digital twins from body scans, simulating wind over avatars and calculating drag. The software can quantify how tweaking a skater's posture or technique would affect resistance and potential speed gains ahead of the Milan-Cortina Olympics.
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