Importance Of Science In Sports

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Background Science has been greatly involved in football and in sports in general in the past few decades. With the new technology available nowadays scientists have been able to reach great results and dig deeper into different aspects of sports which gave the coaches the knowledge and skills to create better athletes compared to previous generations. To improve performance of athletes, coaches started using methods based on scientific researches and analysis done by sports scientists instead of depending always on their instinct or on their personal experience in the sport but still the use of science in sports and to what extent it should be involved is controversial. More about sports science………… http://sportsscientists.com/2010/08/kayaking-wrap-from-poznan/ …show more content…

To previous generations sports is unrecognizable. Over the last 25 years, there has been a significant growth in the importance of sports science in assisting, improving, and monitoring athlete preparation for the Olympic Games. Most individual athletes and teams will have several sport scientists who are integral to both the preparation phase and at the Olympic Games themselves. (((((((((( the use of sports science in preparation fort the olympic competition …show more content…

The university of Michigan is now using VR to recruit and train players by giving feedback with a virtual perspective and by helping players experience moments of gameplay over and over. In an even more extreme way it is thought that with the use of an intelligent algorithm we can predict what the opposing team will do next and what their next play will be, informed by a quick search through history of game tape. There are already some complex softwares that can predict game results, who will score next or where the ball will be played next depending on some series of events and information saved in their memories. These information can be in the form of position data or some statistical analysis of numerical data that has been collected during previous games. This takes me now to the next topic that I want to focus on which is computer science in the sports. -Computer science in sports……… History, research activities and topics ---> abstract collection computer science in sport dagstuhl seminar Computer science in sports has become a scientific discipline throughout the last 30 years. Working areas have evolved, national and international associations have been founded, journals are published and congresses are organized regularly to present research activities. The

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