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...doing it for the nearly four hours that it takes a world-class racer to cover the 50 km (nearly 8 km more than a marathon). "Now I realize it looks strange," Korzeniowski says during a coffee break in his Tourcoing apartment. He didn't as a teen. The sport was popular in the part of southeast Poland where he grew up, so "you weren't just a single person with a funny walk." In any case, he was just glad to be doing something sporty. At 9, he'd come down with a rheumatic illness. Sports were off-limits...
Gilligan, who in addition to rounding up players said he played in “almost every sport,” was awarded the first annual Intramural Athlete of the Year Award by Spies...
That path is littered, Chappell claims, with disaffected kids who are "leaving the sport in droves." Playing standards, he adds, are declining at many levels. The knee-jerk retort - What could be wrong with a system that's kept Australian teams at the peak of world cricket since the mid '90s? - is "simplistic," he says: the consequences of what's happening will soon reach the top, and dynasties can crumble. The West Indies were dominant in the '80s, but cricket there is now languishing, as it is to varying degrees and for different reasons in England, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe...
Scientists "have captured the sport," Chappell says. Though he acknowledges their theorizing has its benefits, he believes it's being misused. Of biomechanics expert John Harmer, a coach at Cricket Australia's Centre of Excellence in Brisbane, Chappell says: "I've heard John (give lectures) and he's brilliant. Everything makes sense. But coaches think, 'Wasn't that great!' and they go away and try to teach it to kids, who don't understand it" and shouldn't be thinking about it anyway...
...Institute, and his professor Martin Vetterli developed the SimulCam blueprint. Ayer and his brother Jean-Marie, then a Swisscom executive and now CEO of Dartfish Europe, spent Sunday dinners discussing potential applications for SimulCam. They sensed an opportunity on television. Says Serge: "What we saw happening on TV during sport competitions, such as split screen and instant replay, wasn't good enough." Their idea was to layer the positions of two athletes at the same point of, say, a ski race so TV commentators could easily explain and viewers could easily see the differences. Jean-Marie quit...