Darrell Proctor is a publishing industry veteran with more than 30 years' experience writing about business, technology and sports. He spent more than a decade at the St. Petersburg Times and later the Rocky Mountain News, where he authored the Mile High Tech blog and was noted for his reviews of consumer electronics and technology. Questions for Darrell? Drop him a line at techexaminer@gmail.com.

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Go with the flow - U.S. Olympic swimmers get high-tech help

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August 9, 3:23 PM

by Darrell Proctor, Business Examiner

Timothy Wei of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is helping
U.S. swimmers at the Summer Games in Beijing. (RPI)

Seconds count when world-class athletes compete, and technological advances have been at the root of many an Olympic success story.

U.S. swimmers are getting help in Beijing from a technology developed by a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The experimental flow measurement techniques are designed to help swimmers sharpen their strokes and get faster lap times.

Here's more information about the project developed by Timothy Wei, acting dean of RPI's School of Engineering.

Incidentally, Wei is not only working with U.S. swimmers - his techniques also are being used by the U.S. skeleton team.

Follow the U.S. swim team as it competes in Beijing at the 2008 Summer Games by visiting USA Swimming's Web site.

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