Australia’s Olympic swimmers are stepping into the realm of virtual reality to maximise their performances at the Paris Games in July. Relay swimmers have started using virtual reality goggles as a new tool to improve their changeover times by the fractions of a second that can decide gold and silver medals.
The Australian team was on the podium in all seven swimming relay events at the Tokyo Games, including gold in the women’s 4x100m freestyle and medley relays, as part of a record medal haul. But ambitions are even higher for Paris, after Australia won three gold medals, three silver and one bronze in the same seven events at last year’s world championships in Fukuoka.
