TY - JOUR
T1 - Technology Innovation and Guardrails in Elite Sport
T2 - The Future is Now
AU - Guppy, Fergus
AU - Muniz-Pardos, Borja
AU - Angeloudis, Konstantinos
AU - Grivas, Gerasimos V.
AU - Pitsiladis, Asimina
AU - Bundy, Ross
AU - Zelenkova, Irina
AU - Tanisawa, Kumpei
AU - Akiyama, Hiroshi
AU - Keramitsoglou, Iphigenia
AU - Miller, Mike
AU - Knopp, Melanie
AU - Schweizer, Fabian
AU - Luckfiel, Tobias
AU - Ruiz, Daniel
AU - Racinais, Sebastien
AU - Pitsiladis, Yannis
N1 - Funding information:
This supplement is supported by the Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI). The supplement was guest edited by Lawrence L. Spriet, who convened a virtual meeting of the GSSI Expert Panel in October 2022 and received honoraria from the GSSI, a division of PepsiCo, Inc., for his participation in the meeting. Dr Spriet received no honoraria for guest editing this supplement. Dr Spriet suggested peer reviewers for each paper, which were sent to the Sports Medicine Editor-in-Chief for approval, prior to any reviewers being approached. Dr Spriet provided comments on each paper and made an editorial decision based on comments from the peer reviewers and the Editor-in-Chief. Where decisions were uncertain, Dr Spriet consulted with the Editor-in-Chief. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of PepsiCo, Inc. The authors of this article acknowledge the following companies that have supported the development of the ecosystem for live tracking of performance and biometrics data: Vodafone S.A.U (Madrid, Spain), Gaitup SA (Renens, Switzerland), ARTi Analytics BV (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), and BodyCap (Caen, France). Special thanks are also extended to Mr Rafael Prada Gomez (previously Manager, Oracle Centre of Excellence at Avantic—CGI, Madrid, Spain) whose genius has been instrumental in the making and implementation of the real-time technology.
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© The Author(s) 2023
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - A growing number of companies are developing or using wearable sensor technologies that can monitor, analyse and transmit data from humans in real time that can be used by the sporting, biomedical and media industries. To explore this phenomenon, we describe and review two high-profile sporting events where innovations in wearable technologies were trialled: the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games (Tokyo 2020, Japan) and the 2022 adidas Road to Records (Germany). These two major sporting events were the first time academic and industry partners came together to implement real-time wearable solutions during major competition, to protect the health of athletes competing in hot and humid environments, as well as to better understand how these metrics can be used moving forwards. Despite the undoubted benefits of such wearables, there are well-founded concerns regarding their use including: (1) limited evidence quantifying the potential beneficial effects of analysing specific parameters, (2) the quality of hardware and provided data, (3) information overload, (4) data security and (5) exaggerated marketing claims. Employment and sporting rules and regulations also need to evolve to facilitate the use of wearable devices. There is also the potential to obtain real-time data that will oblige medical personnel to make crucial decisions around whether their athletes should continue competing or withdraw for health reasons. To protect athletes, the urgent need is to overcome these ethical/data protection concerns and develop wearable technologies that are backed by quality science. The fields of sport and exercise science and medicine provide an excellent platform to understand the impact of wearable sensors on performance, wellness, health, and disease.
AB - A growing number of companies are developing or using wearable sensor technologies that can monitor, analyse and transmit data from humans in real time that can be used by the sporting, biomedical and media industries. To explore this phenomenon, we describe and review two high-profile sporting events where innovations in wearable technologies were trialled: the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games (Tokyo 2020, Japan) and the 2022 adidas Road to Records (Germany). These two major sporting events were the first time academic and industry partners came together to implement real-time wearable solutions during major competition, to protect the health of athletes competing in hot and humid environments, as well as to better understand how these metrics can be used moving forwards. Despite the undoubted benefits of such wearables, there are well-founded concerns regarding their use including: (1) limited evidence quantifying the potential beneficial effects of analysing specific parameters, (2) the quality of hardware and provided data, (3) information overload, (4) data security and (5) exaggerated marketing claims. Employment and sporting rules and regulations also need to evolve to facilitate the use of wearable devices. There is also the potential to obtain real-time data that will oblige medical personnel to make crucial decisions around whether their athletes should continue competing or withdraw for health reasons. To protect athletes, the urgent need is to overcome these ethical/data protection concerns and develop wearable technologies that are backed by quality science. The fields of sport and exercise science and medicine provide an excellent platform to understand the impact of wearable sensors on performance, wellness, health, and disease.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85173114400&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s40279-023-01913-1
DO - 10.1007/s40279-023-01913-1
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 37787844
AN - SCOPUS:85173114400
SN - 0112-1642
VL - 53
SP - 97
EP - 113
JO - Sports Medicine
JF - Sports Medicine
IS - Suppl 1
ER -
