High-Tech Olympics

by Nick Hunter

High-Tech Olympics focuses on the new technologies used in sport today and how they are being used to help train world-class athletes. It also includes diagrams to illustrate how technology has been used to develop state-of-the art sports equipment and an Olympic records table to show how Olympic records have changed and some technological reasons why these may have changed.

32 pages, Library Binding

First published July 1, 2011

Reviews

[A Allen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I did not read every word on each page so I am putting this title on my abandoned shelf. This book has interesting information. I did not know that that athletes are wired up electronically to the scoring system so that fencing hits are counted automatically, for example. The book talks about how tech has helped athletes in many ways, but Hunter is sure to acknowledge that not all tech is good by adding toward the end that "drugs have tempted athletes to cheat their fellow competitors". Interestingly, when looking over the table in the back of the book, it seems that most "changes in technology" were because of better training and diet. I like the information and appreciate the photos, but the text does not flow properly from page to page. I do not like the "Shoes are for wimps!" sub-header either.

[Cheryl Willams · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book.