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Higher, Further, Faster: Is Technology Improving Sport? (Science Museum Techknow Series) - Softcover

Ross, Stewart

 
9780470516515: Higher, Further, Faster: Is Technology Improving Sport? (Science Museum Techknow Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0470516518 ISBN 13: 9780470516515
Verlag: Wiley, 2008

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Sport is undergoing a global technological revolution. Year on year, records are smashed, equipment gets more sophisticated, facilities improve almost beyond recognition. These changes are impacting on all areas of sport, from shoes to cycles and stadia. Is this making sport more exciting for participants and spectators? Or are talent and determination becoming secondary to money and technology, devaluing honest competition?
 
In Higher, Further, Faster..., Stewart Ross looks at these questions and much more. Starting with a description of technology's impact on elements common to various sports, such as bats, balls, pitches and special clothing, he then examines the controversies that arise almost daily, from golf club technology to the use of Hawk-eye in tennis. He also looks ahead to the techno-future of major sports such as football, tennis, golf, cricket, cycling and motor sport, and asks where they are going:
* Are referees and umpires becoming redundant?
* If drugs will always win, do we really have a choice about using them?
* Will we ever see a Super-Human Olympics?
* Is modern professional sport more about technology than talent?
* Can athletes from the developing world ever hope to compete in modern sport?
 
This book is a must-read for all participants and fans who want to understand the technological upheaval that is shaking modern sport to its very foundations. One thing's for sure: whether you find it stimulating or just plain scary, the future will be very, very different...
 
About the author
Stewart Ross is a full-time writer with some 200 published titles to his credit. He is also an occasional journalist and broadcaster, a frequent lecturer, notably on the QE2 and at ICES (La Roche sur Yon, France, where he lectures to science students), and a much sought-after presenter of workshops to schools and adult groups.
 
www.stewartross.net

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Stewart Ross is a sports enthusiast and prize-winning writer with some 200 published titles to his credit. He's also an occasional journalist and broadcaster, a frequent lecturer, notably on cruise liners and at ICES (La Roche sur Yon, France), and a much sought-after presenter of workshops to schools and adult groups.

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In Higher, Further, Faster...sports fanatic Stewart Ross looks at the impact of technology on elements common to many sports - such as balls, surfaces, clothing and drugs - and examines the controversies that arise almost daily, from golf club technology to the use of Hawk-eye. Ross also looks ahead to the techno-future of major sports such as football, athletics, swimming, tennis, golf, cricket and cycling and wonders, where will they be 75 years from now?

Are referees and umpires becoming redundant?

Who's winning the drugs war, the dopers or testers?

Will we see a Super-Human Olympics?

Is modern professional sport more about technology than talent?

Can athletes from developing countries ever hope to compete at the highest level?

Discover. Question. Provoke.

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Verlag
Wiley
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0470516518
ISBN 13 
9780470516515
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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