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Physics for sports fans

28 May 2019 Matin Durrani
Taken from the May 2019 issue of Physics World.

Matin Durrani reviews Advantage Play: Technologies that Changed Sporting History by Steve Haake

Photo of sprinter in starting blocks
On your marks: Advantage Play details technological changes in sport from ancient Greek athletes onwards. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/OSTILL is Franck Camhi)
When the physicist Steve Haake began his career as a “sports engineer” in the early 1990s, he wa

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Matin Durrani is editor-in-chief of Physics World
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