After linking team symptoms to chloramines, Aditi Gandhi built a prototype to track air quality and improve swimmer safety. Stock photo via Keith Dunlap
Blake School student-athlete Aditi Gandhi took it upon herself to address an issue that many swimmers worldwide experience: the sickly feeling after long practices, which sometimes stems from harmful chemicals in the pools where swimmers train.
“Me and my teammates, we would notice after long practices that we would start feeling very sick,” Gandhi said in an interview with MPR News. “I would notice increased inflammation and pain after swimming, when swimming is actually supposed to take away your pain, because it circulates blood.”…