Enjoying the Olympic Games but having trouble wrapping your head around the records? Maybe you'd understand them better in automotive terms.
Olympic Games and cars—it's a strange connection to make. But we're strange. How fast are the Olympic cyclists? Could they outrun a 1948 Citroën 2CV? At 31 mph for the bikes and an under-pressure 41 mph for the car, it might be close. How many horses take part in The Games? What's their total horsepower? Car and Driver reached out to International Olympic Committee to find out, but we haven't heard back. Rough estimate, more than 60, which again beats the Citroën .
American swimmer Katie Ledecky can swim a freestyle lap in about 30 seconds, so she'd make it back and forth almost eight times before the pool went dry World Aquatics, the international governing body that regulates water sports for the International Olympic Committee, requires competition pools to measure 164 feet 0.5 inch in length, and 82 feet in width.
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