With discoveries and improvements, the globe is expanding quickly, and the human race has done an outstanding job of creating reliable technology. Who thought you’d be reading our story while making coffee on your smartphone one day? Even Nevertheless, we think the day will come soon when most of our labor will be done by machines. We’ll talk about the Top 10 inventions in this post that have transformed the sports world and helped players realise their full potential.
1. Taekwondo Sensors That Beat Human Judges
Referees in Beijing in 2008 failed to see British athlete Sarah Stevenson’s high kick, which would have given her the victory in the match. She was later allowed to compete again, but the incident demonstrated that mistakes might be made when practicing Korean martial art. The 2009 World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships in Baku used magnetic socks and bodyguards with electronic sensor technology to address this issue.
2. Radio Chips That Track Football Players
How do you see many National Football League players stampede? Using Zebra, the logistics firm chosen last year to serve as the official “on-field player-tracking provider” for the US Football League. To keep track of inventories and assets—in this example, players—Zebra employs electromagnetic radio-frequency identification, a technique that is widely used in manufacturing, transportation, and retail. A receiver positioned between the top and lower decks of the stadium receives signals that are emitted 15 times per second by two penny-sized sensors that are implanted in players’ shoulder pads.
3. The Team That Relies On IP To Succeed
America’s Cup, the oldest international sporting trophy, is an arms race in technology: a £7 million hydrofoil craft attached to wings the size of a Boeing 737 flies at speeds three times faster than the wind it is propelled by, hovering above the water with as little as 1% of its surface area submerged. The America’s Cup does not have the identical design restrictions as Formula 1 manufacturers have today, which allows teams to experiment. Ben Ainslie Racing, former McLaren principal Martin Whitmarsh and Red Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey have shown interest in the team chosen to represent the UK in the championship. While Newey works as a consultant, Whitmarsh acts as CEO.
4. Scans That Quantify You In 3D
With the use of the MRI, Klarismo creates very accurate visualizations of its clients’ bodies that calculate the quantities of their organs, fat, and muscle tissue. It makes no claims to provide the diagnostic-grade knowledge that a radiologist could find in a CT scan but rather a visual representation of the quantified self. You may scan your entire body, or just your neck or knees if you want to understand more about yourself.
5. Data Analysis That Wins World Cups
EXOS is a training, nutrition, and physical therapy team behind the teams with customers in a variety of sports, the US military, and first responders. It is situated in Phoenix, Arizona. The German football team’s successful 2014 World Cup campaign was managed by EXOS. Die Mannschaft ran a mean of 113.8 km in the group stage, surpassing only the USA, another EXOS customer.
6. The Man Aiming To Smash The Two-Hour Marathon
Given that the marathon world record is 2:02:57, the two-hour mark is doable. Yannis Pitsiladis, a professor of sport and exercise science at Brighton University, believes it will be broken by 2019 and is actively striving to do so. His SUB2 study began in 2014, seven years after he and a group of academics examined the training of elite runners in Ethiopia and Kenya, the two nations that rule the distance running world.
7. The Filter That Spots Trainability
Chelsea Warr, the deputy director of performance at UK Sport, recognized the potential in two athletes: skeleton bobsleigh Lizzy Yarnold, who last year completed a grand slam of Olympic, European, World Championship, and World Cup titles, and current world number one rower Helen Glover, who won Team GB’s first gold at London 2012.
8. Military Tricks Designed To Defy Ageing
The “career extension specialist” from New Orleans is a forerunner in the field of sports science. When most competitors tried to make weight by sweating in garbage bags, he employed DEXA X-ray scans to quantify boxers’ bone, muscle, and fat to the closest gram. Before the 2015–16 NFL season, Shilstone hired a variety of physicians, physical therapists, and dieticians to examine the injured Peyton Manning.
9. Design Tweaks That Reinvented The Wheel
The steering wheel has been redesigned by Lewis Hamilton and the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula 1 team. It might be like an Xbox controller on drugs, but it was made this way for a reason: Hamilton’s thumbs need to be able to access all the necessary controls without having to remove his hand from the special grips as he turns.
10. Therapy That Slashes Recovery Times
Isokinetic is one of 42 FIFA-accredited institutes globally that specializes in treating sports injuries. “Sportspeople can recover stronger, both physically and mentally.” In the past, orthopedic surgery was frequently used to treat different sports injuries. Today, physical therapy is performed as opposed to surgery. Athletes who suffered from cruciate ligament injuries used to risk missing a year of competition after surgery. After six to eight weeks of physical treatment before surgery, some skiers are now able to resume their activities.
