A sticky situation...

Now, the next time says you're slower than swimming through molasses, you can toss this little bit of junk-science debunking back at them - according to researchers at the University of Minnesota, water isn't any faster to swim through.

I can see the new training regimen for Michael Phelps and Ian Thorpe now... swimming through fluid that "looked like snot. I don't know how to describe it any more poetically..."