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, as sailor Aloïse Retornaz sums it up, combines heat and extreme humidity to serve seawater at 30 ° C or 31 ° C.
“It will raise the body temperature.
The more you heat up, the more energy you consume.
It will not be easy for the swimmers who have done the basin events, they stayed for ten days in an air-conditioned environment ”
, presents Stéphane Lecat, the coach of the French open water team (10 km) .
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Before detailing:
“We must pay attention to the syndrome of the cooked frog (which has expended all its energy to adapt to the conditions and no longer manages to assemble enough forces at the critical moment).
This can quickly fall asleep and the swimmer may be unable to be in the game at the decisive moment, no longer able to produce the muscle energy needed to continue the effort as he would be able to do in a much larger environment. clement, at 25 ° C or
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