Sailing, rowing and swimming… How can science increase our medal count at the 2024 Paris Olympics?
To get into the top five countries with the most medals at the Paris Olympics, leading scientists collaborated with French teams in order to improve their performance. They published part of their analysis in the book Olympic Physics, which brings together fifteen years of cutting-edge research on athletic prowess.
After diving, what is the best time to start running? How should a table tennis player serve Felix Lebron? Do cyclists benefit from passing the stick at the beginning or end of a turn? With less than forty days before the start of the Games, scientists continue to work closely with French athletes to improve their performance on D-Day.
Over the course of six years, researchers from 14 major schools dissected the characteristics of each sport in order to shave off a few hundredths of a second or a few centimeters to help the French teams achieve the national goal: entering the top five in the medal table. . This program, called “Science 2024,” enjoys state support.
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