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July 21, 2005
It's the Bloody Technology
Posted by Nick
Here's an interesting look at UK Sport, a quasi-government body that promotes sports excellence in the UK, mostly through technology.
Much of the technology developed by UK Sport is highly confidential, particularly the systems created by the agency’s performance team.
Technology here is cutting-edge, and helps UK athletes compete on the world stage. The best example, says Fellows, is the bike used by Jason Queally and Britain’s other gold medal cyclists.
‘In terms of design and fabric, the bike was quite revolutionary at the time,’ he says.
As well as helping to fund the bike’s development, Fellows says UK Sport evaluates technological research in other sports.
‘If you look at rowing, sailing and cycling, Britain does very well because there is a technology applied with a cutting edge,’ he says.
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Nick Schulz is the Editor of Tech Central Station and has worked in media circles and the ideas industry as a writer, editor, television producer and policy analyst. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The National Post of Canada, The Baltimore Sun, Investor's Business Daily, The Washington Times, National Review, Reason, Policy Review, and several other publications. He is also, it should be said, a rabid sports fan whose fandom is inversely proportional to his overall athletic ability.
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