Here is bit of info on how golf will be integrated in to the Olympics in the US. The US Olympic Committee has all the Olympic Sports divided up into groups that teams of "performance specialists" work with; Technology, Biomechanics, Nutrition, Psych, Physiology etc. We call them Sportfolios. I am one of the sport technologists/biomechanists. Golf is in my sportfolio (along … [Read more...]
BMW Velocity Measurement System: An Example of Technology we use at the US Olympic Committee
BMW is a corporate sponsor of the US Olympic Committee. Instead of just supporting us financially they also wanted to help technically. We had a meeting with them and decided that we needed a technology that could measure the running and take-off velocity of a long jump. So they developed a system for us. We are now using it at the training center in Chula Vista. Here is … [Read more...]