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...Swimming Federation's International Center for Aquatic Research in Colorado Springs, more than 10,000 swimmers have been tested on a swimming treadmill called a flume, in which their oxygen intake is measured and evaluated as they exercise. Sessions in the flume showed that Dara Torres, a specialist in the 100-m freestyle, needed to enhance her anaerobic system with more sprint repetitions. Such evaluations are also helping athletes settle on the right amount of training. Swimmers reach a peak after 12 weeks of intensive work and then need a tapering-off period...
Theme parks may be better known for flume rides and cruise ships for bingo, but from Disney to Opryland to Hersheypark, they are becoming the summer theaters of the '90s: the places where growing numbers of tyro thespians, crooners and tap dancers get their first experience performing before live audiences...
...necessarily look for a summer-stock barn or tent, like so many fledgling players of times past. Instead, the tyro tap dancers, crooners and thespians would probably hie themselves to the nearest theme park or cruise ship to audition for a job. Theme parks may be more conspicuous for flume rides and cotton candy, and cruise ships may be best known for bingo and buffets. But they have become the summer stock of the '90s, the place where growing numbers of young performers get their first experience in entertaining live audiences -- and where many audience members, particularly young ones, first...
California's Disneyland has just opened Splash Mountain, which may be the most high-tech, high-thrill, fastest, longest, tallest log-flume ride in the world. Two thousand passengers an hour can shriek through the swirling path down the watery mountain, at speeds of up to 40 m.p.h. Serenading them along the way are Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Bear and other characters from Disney's 1946 partly animated film Song of the South. Since Splash Mountain opened July 18, visitors have typically waited an hour and a half for the 10-min. ride...
...form and technique, to test aerobic capacity and to develop speed and coordination via devices much like computer games. Sometimes the results are practical: demonstrating to a runner that he is placing more stress than needed on his ankles. Other times there is apparent tech-cess: the $1 million flume built by the U.S.O.C. to study swimming has been used by only a handful of athletes since it became operational in May. Numerically, the Soviets have a seemingly huge lead in sports-science researchers, although the different systems make numbers hard to compare. For all of that, however, new theories...