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...Germany, Thailand and Venezuela. In the U.S., some two dozen Olympic sports use Dartfish. The technology helped athletes worldwide win 45 medals in the 2002 Winter Games, according to Victor Bergonzoli, general manager of the company's U.S. unit. "There are about half a dozen similar programs," says Mike Leigh, a technologist for the U.S. Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs, Colo., who has worked in sports science for 20 years. "But none works better than Dartfish...
...example, the camera was zoomed in on the first shot-putter but zoomed out on the second. Another feature, StroMotion, can freeze a long jumper's position at various points in flight; the jumper resembles cartoon cels whooshing across the screen. The program also makes quick calculations. To illustrate, Leigh pauses a video of speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno, a gold medalist, and another skater approaching a left turn. In speed skating, the lower the knee's angle, the faster you explode around a bend. Leigh pointed and clicked on two knees. It's easy to decode an advantage: Ohno...
...doubt Dartfish's value, but because of the perpetually crowded sports market, some question its long-term prospects. "The amateur athletes don't have much money to spend," says Leigh, who has also invested in sports-technology companies. "And the pros expect everything to be given to them. It's a tough row to hoe." Bergonzoli says the pros get no freebies from Dartfish and that downward pressure on tech costs will increase volume. The company, which grew 40% last year, broke even for the first time this past quarter. For a young tech firm like Dartfish, that's cause...
...said he put up the box “for people who don’t normally encounter much poetry to get a little poetry in their day.” He placed it by the shuttle stop to encourage its use. And House Co-Masters Sandra Naddaff and Leigh Hafrey used House funds to pay for its installment by a team of University carpenters...
...chairs presented their booklet to the Mather House Co-Masters Sandra Naddaff and Leigh Hafrey, Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II, HUPD Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley and Alan P. Symonds, technical director for College theatre programs in the Houses...