For some 2018 U.S. Winter Olympians, their origin stories almost seem inevitable. There is British-born but American-raised freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy, who grew up in Telluride, Colorado, one of the skiing capitals of the country, if not the world. It would’ve been more surprising had the 2014 Olympic men’s freestyle skiing silver medalist not begun […]
As athletes from the U.S. Ski & Snowboard team descend upon Pyeongchang, South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, they’ll be doing so with months of training in virtual reality that have provided them with an unprecedented number of mental reps on a course many have never seen. In early 2017, the ski team […]
PyeongChang’s Olympic flame will be ignited underneath the cloud of the Russian doping scandal. Just because the International Olympic Committee has banned Russia, the doping debate is far from over. Roger Pielke Jr., director of the University of Colorado-Boulder Department of Athletics Sports Governance Center, thinks the messy and lengthy investigation process starts with flaws […]
NEW YORK — Over the next few weeks, roughly four dozen Intel employees will descend upon Pyeongchang, South Korea in a massive undertaking that will see the technology company transformed into a mobile production house with field crews, producers and virtual reality cameras. In what will be the largest-scale virtual reality event to date and […]
Professional squash is taking the plunge into the world of analytics. At upcoming tournaments beginning Thursday with the J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions in New York City, the Professional Squash Association will debut a number of technological enhancements to its game. The Tournament of Champions, which runs through Jan. 25 inside Grand Central Terminal, will […]
