New Tech Helps Chinese Speed Skater Gao Tingyu Take Gold at Beijing Winter Olympics
Li Na
DATE:  Feb 14 2022
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
New Tech Helps Chinese Speed Skater Gao Tingyu Take Gold at Beijing Winter Olympics New Tech Helps Chinese Speed Skater Gao Tingyu Take Gold at Beijing Winter Olympics

(Yicai Global) Feb. 14 -- New technologies from domestic and overseas universities, research and development centers, and high-tech firms have maximized the physical potential and competitive ability of China’s Winter Olympic athletes, helping speed skater Gao Tingyu win the country’s fourth gold medal.

Gao won the gold medal in the men’s 500-meter speed skating final at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games on Feb. 12, setting an Olympic record of 34.32 seconds.

Since January 2020, Gao has trained with the ‘high-speed catapult,’ a device developed by the Beijing Institute of Technology that helps speed skaters reach a specific speed from rest in a few seconds. With this new technology, the athlete can reduce physical exertion during training to improve efficiency.

Intel also provided China’s speed skating team with a three-dimensional athlete tracking technology, Yicai Global learned from the US chipmaker yesterday. The system can extract athletes’ bone and muscle shapes and motion trajectories from standard videos, reconstruct their 2D and 3D posture and trajectory models, and generate biomechanical data that can help them improve their performance.

The Beijing Institute of Technology also provided technologies such as 3D motion capture and posture recognition to China’s national bobsleigh and skeleton national teams to help them analyze the motion of the luge and bobsleds at the beginning of the track and in the curve sections, and the posture kinematics and human dynamics at the start of the track.

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Keywords:   Beijing Winter Olympics