What’s new at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista?

The Olympic training center in Chula Vista, CA has been outfitted with a new instrumented runway. One of the horizontal jumps runways on the track has been instrumented with fourteen force plate mounts, covering almost forty two feet. Once installed, the force plates are level with the track surface and allow the biomechanics team to measure three dimensional ground reaction forces that the athlete generates during the ground contact phase of running. Full Article... SKELETON TRAINING - A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH By Derek M.R. Kivi At the United States Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, New York, sport science is helping the athletes in the sport of skeleton take their training to a higher level. Using the bobsled/skeleton outdoor push track, the high speed treadmill, and biomechanical analysis projects, scientists are developing new training techniques and expanding the knowledge about this sport. Full Article... TIMING: IN SPORTS - IT'S EVERYTHING By Sarah L. Smith, Ph.D and Thomas ...  more