Olympic swimmers

I"m guessing they tilt their heads in just the right way to make sure the goggles stay on.

I could probably goggle it to find out for sure.

I mean google.

They always wear them - including meets. You usually get the tension and the seal correctly and it's not a big deal. BUT - they can still flip and they can flood. That can happen but rare nowadays. Happened to Phelps in 2008 Olympics.

I'm always surprised at the ones who wear them in backstroke, but they make it work. Many also wear nose plugs for backstroke due to how much underwater kicking there is.

What's insane is goggles weren't a thing until the late 70's. Before then, many didn't wear goggles OR swimcaps. Just rawdogged it with super chlorinated eyes.

I remember that - I started swimming on a team in 1976 - just burning eyes every single day.

I swim regularly but not Olympically (a LONG way from fast enough or good enough for that). I always wear goggles, otherwise your eyes do end up burning. And with the right fit and tension they dont come off when you dive in.

R2 I didnt know that goggles were a new(ish) thing, TIL

R3 - pics of East German women swimmers. No caps, no goggles. 1976 olympics.

There were a few using them at that time, but they were extremely unreliable at the dive off the blocks.

I’m guessing they don’t wear the $8 ones you get at CVS.

Goggles are essential during training as you pass your team mates at close proximity while sharing lanes.

r6, I know they use them when training, because they don't generally dive in when training. I'm talking about at meets.

R4 that was hard-ly the only story going on

R8 - Yeah I know - but it's insane that caps and goggles are a relatively new 'tech' for swimming. Here's Mark Spitz - no cap or goggles - which was standard.

The IOC needs to strip all of the medals from East Germans and others that have documented proof of doping and give the participants their rightly earned medals. But that's a different discussion.

Ok R6 / OP!

I Googled goggles and broke the internet.

Of course swimmers dive in to the pool during training, R6! How do you think they practice their starts? They also do drills of, e.g. swimming two lengths, climbing out then diving in again, for endurance.

but not every workout, r12. Just now and then.