The Quantified Olympian

The fine margins of many Olympic victories testify to the crucial role that secondary and tertiary aspects of training can play in determining an athlete's success. These include factors such as sleep, recovery, breathing, and mental well-being, which, while secondary to physical training, still hold significant value.

The athletes competing in the Paris Olympics and Paralympics will likely be the most quantified in history, allowing closer examination of these broader elements. Thanks to the availability of affordable, wearable sensing devices, vast amounts of performance and training data are now accessible to all teams, not just those with high-tech sports labs. While this doesn’t eliminate the disparities between countries and the resources they can devote to sport, it significantly narrows the gap.

Footfalls is playing its part in this with our textile sensors that provide comfortable, close-to-the-body data gathering, benefiting both elite athletes striving for gold and those with more modest goals.

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