Top 8 of 2008 Review
Top 8 of '08 Review
2008 was an Olympic year, and the spotlight was well and truly cast on human performance. There were a few non-Olympic related stories, but for the most part, the world of sport and science was focused on Beijing.
We tried to cover all those stories, and have compiled a list of the Top 8 Sports stories of 2008, as seen through the lens of a sports scientist. Here they are:
- The limits to human performance: World record rush
- Oscar Pistorius: Science, emotion, legal verdicts and remarkable "physiology"
- The Speedo LZR Racer: Making a splash in 08
- Usain Bolt: Stealing the Games, but how fast could he have run?
- The battle against doping shifts gears
- Too hot to handle - Sammy Wanjiru runs 2:06 in heat and humidity
- The margins between defeat and victory - why intellect and sports science are indispensable
- The experiment that never happened - pollution in Beijing
