“For us, longitudinal profiling of athletes, biomechanics and the whole field of exercise physiology are the fields which have the most potential.”
The trick was to bring all of this information together, and in another parallel with the business world, sporting organizations are also increasingly finding that partnerships are of vital importance. The technical skills needed to build a Big Data-driven analytics system are not native to the world of elite sports scientists and physiologists.
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