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USA Bobsled and Skeleton Uses iPads To Optimize Runs In PyeongChang

In the Winter Olympics, bobsled and skeleton is arguably the sport with the least margin for error. Americans Elana Meyers Taylor and Lauren Gibbs won the silver medal on Wednesday in the two-woman bobsled, just seven hundredths of a second behind the gold medal German team. In the 2018 Men’s Skeleton, less than one second separated gold […]

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Single vs. Dual Beam Athlete Timing Systems – What’s Reliable?

If you can’t measure it (accurately), you can’t improve it. That philosophy can be applied to many facets of life, but in the sports performance realm it’s imperative to true athlete development. Being able to validate the training process is what drives improvement not only within the athlete population, but within coaches as well. If […]

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Locast Streams Local Sports Channels To Smartphones For Free

A newly-launched nonprofit is seeking to solve a dilemma faced by the many sports fans weighing whether to cut the cable cord: it’s offering to stream local broadcast stations in high definition to users’ smartphones for free. That includes the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.  Locast.org, founded by longtime communications attorney and Sports Fans Coalition chairman […]

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