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Fast Company
July 2008
Paul Hochman |
High-Tech Gear for Olympic Athletes When it comes to finding that last bit of leverage over the Olympic competition, gear makers strain as hard as the athletes.   |
Wired
August 2002
Andrew Tilin |
The Ultimate Running Machine Inside a Soviet-style training camp, corporate scientists are reengineering neuro-mechanics, blood chemistry, and brain waves. Welcome to the Oregon Project, where Nike is rebuilding the US marathon team one high tech step at a time. |
Sports Illustrated
August 3, 2000 |
IOC to target EPO dopers ...the International Olympic Committee will conduct tests for the cutting-edge performance enhancer erythropoietin... |
Chemistry World
June 27, 2012 |
Chemistry and the Olympics Emma Davies looks into the vital role chemistry will play during the Olympic and Paralympic games |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2005
Marlowe Hood |
Born to Run Could an 18-year-old double amputee perched on a pair of carbon-fiber springs have an edge over able-bodied athletes? Leading experts were surveyed, and the answers are as different as they are surprising. |
Wired
January 2007
Mark McClusky |
The Righteous Fury of Dick Pound As head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, this man is on a crusade to rid elite sports of performance-enhancing drugs. And he's making a few enemies along the way. |
BusinessWeek
June 14, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
Can Drug-Busters Beat New Steroids? Scientists enlisted by anti-doping agencies are trying to stay a step ahead of the cheaters as the Athens Olympics approach. |
Chemistry World
February 8, 2010
Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay |
To catch a cheating athlete As the athletes take center stage at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games this month, chemists will be hard at work behind the scenes to catch athletes looking to win by taking drugs or blood products to artificially boost their performance during the competition. |
Outside
July 2005
Brian Alexander |
The Awful Truth About Drugs in Sports Drug-testing expert Don Catlin is the doping detective who helped break the BALCO scandal wide open- and the man who's about to launch a radical new campaign to finally solve the problem of drugs in sports. |
Outside
November 2003
Stuart Stevens |
Drug Test Everybody knows that many athletes cheat by using performance-enhancing drugs like steroids, testosterone, and EPO. But what is it like to take these banned substances? Do they really help you win? To find out, we sent an amateur cyclist out to try them and report back. |
Outside
October 2003
Brian Alexander |
Are You Ready? The brave new world is coming -- fast. With sci-fi fantasy turning into performance-enhancing reality, we separate the hype from breakthroughs you can use. |
Wired
July 2001
Evan Ratliff |
Born to Run Microchips promise to make artificial legs as good as new. Fast-forward amputees are remaking life and limb on their own. The race is on... |
Fast Company
February 2010
Paul Hochman |
Bionic Legs, i-Limbs, and Other Super Human Prosheses You'll Envy Save your tears for Tiny Tim. A boom in sophisticated prostheses has created a most unlikely by-product: envy. |
Fast Company
November 2000
Ron Lieber |
Boing! After 16 years of research-and-development effort, Nike has finally figured out how to put a little spring not in your step but in your shoes. Innovation, it turns out, is a marathon, not a sprint... |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2005
Marlowe Hood |
Running Against The Wind A double-leg amputee and his high-tech prosthetics are blazing a trail into able-bodied sports. Will they be welcomed? |
Sports Illustrated
May 25, 2000
Tim Layden |
An artificial edge? Athletes try anything in quest to be the best |
Wired
June 23, 2008
Mathew Honan |
Play Like You're an Olympian With This Gold-Standard Gear This August in Beijing, Olympic athletes will rely on the best gear in the world to perform at their peak. Here's the top tech, plus reviews of everything you'll need to have the hottest summer ever. |
Sports Illustrated
August 8, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Inside Olympics Competition will be fierce when America's best dive into the Olympic trials |
Fast Company
August 2004
Jennifer Esty |
The Stuff of Athens New tech-powered gear brings out the Olympic athlete in all of us. |
Sports Illustrated
June 8, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Tumbling around Gymnastics letters |
AskMen.com
October 4, 2000
Mark Simmons |
Olympic Drug Scandals Ah, the beautiful Olympic games: great athleticism, camaraderie and professionalism. But come every four years, the not-so-glamorous drugs also make their unwanted appearance... |
Outside
March 2006
Lindsay Yaw |
Clearing the Air Oxygen chambers allow you to simulate the world's altitude extremes. But should you? Depends on what you're after. |
Sports Illustrated
May 5, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Olympic burnout factor Q&A on the Olympics: increasing surge of interest rising in the 2000 Games in the U.S. public and media?... How does the United States' shot put, discus and hammer throwers look this year?... Has the IOC ever considered offering "at large" berths to athletes... etc. |
National Defense
May 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Casualties of War Leading research at the Department of Veterans Affairs is aimed at helping soldiers who lost limbs in combat. At the core of this program are new technologies meant to seamlessly fuse prosthetics with the human body. |
Sports Illustrated
September 13, 2000
Frank Deford |
A culture of 'sus' So overwhelming is the perception that drugs sustain most Olympic athletes, that it really doesn't matter how much the well is poisoned. Almost every record and every winner is sus. Sus, a shortened version of the word "suspicious," is, so far as I know, only used in Olympic circles. |
Sports Illustrated
January 14, 2002
Phil Taylor |
New age thinking Pro athletes redefine concept of "old" in sports... |
Sports Illustrated
December 5, 2000
Rick Reilly |
Paralympic Paradox You thought there was a boatload of cheaters at the Sydney Olympics? You should've seen what happened when the Games were over. That's when the worst cheaters of all arrived -- the paralympians... |
Chemistry World
July 18, 2008
James Mitchell Crow |
New drug test misses Olympic deadline A biomarker-based test has been developed to detect athletes that have used banned drugs long after the compounds themselves become undetectable - but it won't be approved in time for the Beijing Olympics. |
Outside
September 2003
Ben Hewitt |
Head Strong Beta-tested by Olympians and elite athletes, the wizardry of neuromuscular training will hardwire you for peak performance |
AskMen.com
Anna Della Zazzera |
Olympic Workout Clothes These Olympic workout clothes are stylish and functional. |
Sports Illustrated
July 24, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Tops of the trials Despite the shocking disappointment of the Maurice Greene-Michael Johnson showdown in the men's 200 meters, there were several high points on and off the track during this week's U.S. Olympic trials. Here, in no particular order, is a very unofficial list of highlights... |
Chemistry World
March 8, 2007
Jessica Ebert |
How to Catch an Insulin-Doping Athlete A growing number of athletes reportedly take insulin to boost their performance illegally, but controlling insulin abuse has gone largely unchecked. Now, a urine test designed by German and Belgian scientists could be set to change all that. |
AskMen.com
June 25, 2012
Jeremy Berger |
Tyler Clary Interview American swimmer Tyler Clary talks about how he trains, manages mental and physical stress, and what it's like to be a career athlete and an Olympic hopeful. |
Prepared Foods
January 1, 2007 |
Formulating for Performance Marketing products to both mainstream consumers and the serious athlete is difficult. Research shows that carbohydrate (CHO) metabolism differs between men and women athletes, for example. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2008
Derene et al. |
Olympic Science 101: Physics & Physiology Behind the Games Why is Michael Phelps the ultimate athlete? How does Nastia Liukin pull off those incredible uneven-bar dismounts? We examine the physics and physiology behind the games. |
Wired
Mark McClusky |
The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics Few things illustrate the power and promise of Living by Numbers quite as clearly as the Nike+ system. By combining a dead-simple way to amass data with tools to use and share it, Nike has attracted the largest community of runners ever assembled. |
Popular Mechanics
April 22, 2009
Tyghe Trimble |
The Running Shoe Debate: How Barefoot Runners are Shaping the Shoe Industry Way back in the pack at the Boston Marathon there was one person, Rick Roeber, who stole headlines with his unique running style. |
Sports Illustrated
July 21, 2000
Tim Layden |
Trials are a true test The issue lies dormant and then arises once every four years. Clearly, the U.S. Olympic track and field trials are -- by far -- the best track meet held on American soil. Athletes are physically peaked and emotionally prepared for a moment that is absolutely a cliche: a once-in-four-years shot at going to the Games.... |
Salon.com
October 1, 2000
Gary Kamiya |
All of us Why the Olympics matter. |
Outside
December 2008
Matt Fitzgerald |
The Corrections The 12 most common, performance-defeating fitness mistakes and how to fix them. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Victor Conte Interview We caught up with Victor Conte, possibly the most infamous non-athlete associated with steroids, to find out if the next generation of athletes are destined to raise the bar by juicing, just as snowboarders and tennis players do by continuously getting improved equipment? |
AskMen.com
Branden Peters |
adidas SL Loop Runner adidas has produced several shoes over the years with the SL (super light) tag on them. |
Chemistry World
July 2, 2012
Michael Stow |
Protecting the spirit of competition With the London 2012 Olympics now upon us, the issue of doping in sport is once more in the media spotlight. As new therapies emerge from the pharmaceutical industry, we must be vigilant for new doping threats and new and improved detection methods are continually investigated and developed. |
Fast Company
September 2010 |
How Science Is Used to Design the Perfect Shoe Nike's research lab has sensors under the running track, a gym in a freezer, and elite lab rats. |
Sports Illustrated
March 3, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Defining the Olympic Spirit Welcome to the first Sydney 2000 Mailbag, where we'll discuss anything and everything relating to the Summer Games.... |
Outside
October 2009 |
Revolutionary New Gear A guide to the best new concepts in gear, garb, human performance, and green. |
Sports Illustrated
April 5, 2000 |
What's in and what's out Q&A on the Olympics: Anything like Triplecast in the future?... Handball... Surfing... Mary Slaney and Amy Van Dyken... Why no golf?... Michael Bennett... Will Bahamas team win the 4x100-meter relay?... |
