Every senior professional rugby player in Ireland will soon have access to performance monitoring and GPS tracking technology thanks to a new partnership. The providers of the technology, STATSports, has inked the deal with the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), the authorities of the sport in Ireland. Players will have access to STATSports’ “Apex” device. […]
Cross-country skiing can seem to viewers on TV like a long slog along a snowy course. But the athletes taking on the grueling sport know there’s always a finish line they have to reach. With new technology from Proskida, those cross-country skiers will also know how to get to that finish line most efficiently — […]
Natalie Coughlin retired from swimming with 12 Olympic medals, as many as an American woman has ever earned, even though at 5’8” she was often dwarfed on the pool deck, especially in her short events when facing 6’1” competitors was not uncommon. “I would have killed to have that extra five inches, being a sprinter,” […]
As the U.S. women’s ice hockey team skated to its first Olympic gold medal since 1998, stitched into the sweaters on the backs of every player was a small motion sensor weighing fewer than 10 grams and transmitting reams of data over a dedicated frequency to antennas installed throughout the arena. Combined with camera-tracking of […]
Pyeongchang, South Korea, is 14 hours ahead of Toronto. So an engineer in Canada’s largest city created a solution to help the country’s Olympic athletes avert the tiring effects of jet lag. The engineer, Amol Rao, founded startup company Somnitude and developed a pair of glasses designed to filter out blue light and aptly called […]
