If you have PODS – Post-Olympic Depression Syndrome – don’t fear: the Paralympics are almost here. It looks as though this will be first Paralympic games to be a sell out, with an unprecedented demand…
- Lecturer in Biomechanics, University of Essex
Rudisha It was perhaps billed as the hors d'œuvres before the main event. But it was far from a second billing with David Rudisha winning the 800m in a World Record (1:40.91). It was perhaps the greatest…
I was never in doubt that Bolt would regain his 100m Olympic title. But what made this race intriguing was the will he / won’t he win hype surrounding it - especially after the Jamaican trials. Bolt wanted…
I had my ticket, jumped on a train and who would have thought that the day would have ended up with Gold, Gold, Gold. I was at the morning session of the athletics. The Olympic park is I have to say an…
Over the last 100 years there have been countless outstanding athletic performances, such as Ed Moses, Daley Thompson, Michael Johnson, Emil Zatopek, Roger Bannister, Fanny Blankers-Koen and Cathy Freeman…
You would think starting a track race with a pistol would be a simple thing – but no. It appears that no longer will there be a ‘B’ of the Bang but a ‘P’ of the Ping as a new starting pistol is reportedly…
It appears that my guide to the 100 m has turned into a trilogy. My last two postings covered some stats about sprinting 100 m in 9.58 s and the what the limits of 100 m performance may be based on historical…
Yes the opening ceremony is on Friday night but Olympic competition quite literally kicked off yesterday with the GB women’s football team beating NZ 1-0 at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium. This was the first…
So this is quite an interesting if slightly pointless question, but nevertheless it pops up every now and again…so let’s give it a stab and see what the research says. The 100 m has progressed from a stately…
You write some papers on the mechanics of Bolt’s sprinting and what happens? - You end up doing media stuff. The questions I’m always asked are “how fast can Bolt run” or “how fast can humans run 100m…
As I’m writing this I have just finished a radio interview about Usain Bolt and it is now nine days nine hours and 33 minutes to go before the start of the Olympics. What will the opening ceremony be like…
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