The document discusses various forms of technology doping in sports, including swimsuits, ionized shirts, and interactive materials that provide feedback to athletes. It notes that the LZR Racer swimsuit allowed swimmers to break 23 of 25 world records at the 2008 Beijing Olympics due to its hydrodynamic properties. The World Anti-Doping Agency considers banning technologies that are performance-enhancing or against the spirit of sports. While ionized shirts and feedback materials have potential advantages, there is currently insufficient evidence to consider them banned methods.
The document discusses various forms of technology doping in sports, including swimsuits, ionized shirts, and interactive materials that provide feedback to athletes. It notes that the LZR Racer swimsuit allowed swimmers to break 23 of 25 world records at the 2008 Beijing Olympics due to its hydrodynamic properties. The World Anti-Doping Agency considers banning technologies that are performance-enhancing or against the spirit of sports. While ionized shirts and feedback materials have potential advantages, there is currently insufficient evidence to consider them banned methods.
The document discusses various forms of technology doping in sports, including swimsuits, ionized shirts, and interactive materials that provide feedback to athletes. It notes that the LZR Racer swimsuit allowed swimmers to break 23 of 25 world records at the 2008 Beijing Olympics due to its hydrodynamic properties. The World Anti-Doping Agency considers banning technologies that are performance-enhancing or against the spirit of sports. While ionized shirts and feedback materials have potential advantages, there is currently insufficient evidence to consider them banned methods.
used in sport when athletes use prohibited substances or methods to unfairly improve their sporting performance. Technology Doping Technology doping is the practice of gaining a competitive advantage using sports equipment. WORLD ANTI DOPING AGENCY
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
considers prohibiting technologies if they are "performance-enhancing" or "being against the spirit of the sport". BANNED EQUIPMENTS/APPARATUS
LZR Racer Swimsuit
The LZR Racer Suit (pronounced
as 'laser') is a line of extremely high end swimsuits manufactured by Speedo using a high-technology swimwear fabric composed of woven elastane- nylon and polyurethane. ADVANTAGES It allows for better oxygen flow to the muscles, and holds the body in a more hydrodynamic positi on, while repelling water and increasing flexibility. The seams of the suit are ultrasonically welded to further reduce drag. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, this suit was worn by many swimmers. In fact, some swimmers wore two or more of these suits at once to increase buoyancy. In total, 23 out of the 25 swimming world records broken at the Beijing Olympics were broken by swimmers wearing this suit. PLANNING TO BANNED EQUIPMENT/APPARATUS
Ionized Shirts
A New Zealand firm has created
“IonX shirts” which are made of a material that claims to contain a negatively charged electromagnetic field. The shirt helps increase blood flow, which in turn helps deliver more oxygen to the muscles and remove lactic acid from the muscles more quickly. Since there is no scientific publication supporting claims that changes in the body ion charges or magnetic field distribution enhance performance, and since such technologies do not contain prohibited substances, these technologies should not be considered as a banned method to date“. Interactive Material
An Australian science agency, created a garment that can
monitor movement and give feedback.
For example, a basketball player can wear the material in the
form of a sleeve. Then sensors in the material send information to a computer when the player takes shots and responds with audible tones.
The material essentially gives the athlete real-time
feedback on their movements. Advantages
Athletes can learn patterns of tones that indicate
successful or unsuccessful movements and use these to make improvements. The material helps correct the athlete’s movement and helps the athlete gain muscle memory, so they can continue to perform well once the material is taken away. Conclusion
Doping is not only limited with the
drugs and banned substances injected in the human body, its also related to the equipments, apparatus too which in directly as well as illegally enhance performance.
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