50 Days to Go: Let the (build up to the) Games begin

50 Days to Go: Let the (build up to the) Games begin

With 50 days to go to the Paris Olympics, it's all systems go for athletes, coaches, and media. Sean Ingle will be covering his 7th Olympic Games, and he joins us from Rome's European Track and Field Championships to talk about some of the themes we expect to make the news at these Paris Games. They include tech's pervasive and unavoidable influence on performance, a simmering feud in the world of anti-doping, and the evolution and relevance of the Olympic Games in the face of both external and internal pressures. We also present The Official Science of Sport surveys in which you get to vote for your favourite event of the Games, and our ambitious consensus project to classify the Olympic Sports by their physiological and psychological demands. A busy period of great sport starts here!


Show notes:


Here is where you sign up to become a Patron and get access to our awesome and informative Discourse community


The Discourse page, for those who are already Patrons of the pod (you sign in with your Patron log-ins)


If you want to join our survey to rate the Olympic sports for their athletic components, here is the link to the once-off survey


Our 'bracket' challenge to pick your most engaging, popular specific event


We spoke of tech in cycling on the show, and here's an announcement from Team GB/Lotus about their track bikes for their Paris campaign


Here's the paper with Kenenisa Bekele has a co-author, that recognizes that the new era performances, powered by super shoes, and aided by wavelights, need an asterisk alongside them


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