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Olympics FYI: Why Is Cannabis Considered a Performance-Enhancing Drug?
The Fully Electronic, Futuristic Starting Gun That Eliminates Advantages in Races
Video: The Superhuman Biomechanics Behind Usain Bolt
Archive Gallery: The Secrets of Olympic Athletes
The First Cooling Shirt That Lowers Body Temperature
November 1926: Why Men Will Always Be Better at Sports Than Women
Summer Olympics: 2020
PopSci Q&A: The U.S. Olympic Team’s Chief Technologist Tells Us How Olympians Train
FYI: Will Athletes Ever Stop Breaking Records?
How Science Predicts Which Olympic Events Will Be the Most Exciting to Watch
How to Construct the Lightest, Most Open Olympic Stadium Ever Built
The Totally Custom, Absurdly Light 3-D Printed Shoe That Could Win Olympic Gold
Speedo’s Super-Fast, Shark-Skin-Inspired Fastskin Swimsuit Is Actually Nothing Like a Shark’s Skin
The Adidas miCoach Will Track Real-Time Data From Every Single MLS Player
You Built What?! A Flashing, Tilting Ping-Pong Table to Throw Off Opponents
Golf-Ball-Inspired Nike Track Suit Has Speed Holes, for Speed
Paralyzed Woman Completes London Marathon in Bionic Suit After 16 Days
London Residents May Get Anti-Aircraft Missiles on Their Rooftops to Defend the Olympic Games
Simple Project of the Month: Build Your Own Hoverpuck
An Oral History of Extreme Sports
Actual Robot Sportscaster Could Replace Robotlike Human Sportscasters
Seeking Advanced Stem Cell Treatment, Peyton Manning Flies to Europe
Double-Amputee Sprinter Oscar Pistorius Will Be First Amputee to Compete in the World Championships
American Soccer Robots Dominate at the World RoboCup 2011
Wearing Yellow Might Give Tennis Players an Edge
We Need a League Of Performance-Enhanced Athletes
Did Stem Cell Therapy Repair Bartolo Colon’s Broken Pitching Arm?
How Humans Manipulate the Planet For The Sake of a Good Game
Jet-Propelled Surfboard Battles the Breakers
For Safety and Control, the Metal Bat Gets Reinvented
Under Armour’s Sensor-Embedded Shirts Measure NFL Prospects, Stride by Stride
Researching Stress, Scientists May Have Accidentally Found Baldness Cure
Woodpeckers’ Heads Inspire New Shock-Absorbing Systems for Electronics and Humans
NFL Testing Helmets With Impact-Sensing Accelerometers for Concussion Analysis
Brilliant 10: Chiara Daraio, the Sound Magician
NBA Bans Spring-Loaded Sneakers for Giving Unfair Ups
Nike Patents Back-to-the-Future-Style Self-Lacing Shoes
Sophisticated Mathematical Model Predicts Spain Will Win World Cup Final
South Africa’s Soundproof Stadium For the World Cup
Qatar Unveils Awesome Solar Stadium Designs For 2022 World Cup
In 2022 World Cup Bid, Japan Offers to Broadcast Live, Full-Scale 3-D Holographic Games on Fields Worldwide
England’s Football Stars Sleeping in Oxygen Deprivation Tents to Prep for World Cup
I’m Sad Speed Skiing Isn’t an Olympic Sport
Carbon Offsets and Recycling Bins Do Not a Green Olympics Make
New Camera System Takes the Guesswork out of Baseball Stats
Head-Up Display Brings Ski Goggles Into the Future
The Science Behind Jabulani, Adidas’s 2010 World Cup Soccer Ball
So Do Prosthetic Limbs Give Sprinters an Advantage Or Not?
The Future of Snowsports Tech
In Defense of Cyborg Athletes
Study Proves That Specialized Prosthetic Legs Grant No Advantage In Sprinting
Real or Fake? The World’s Longest Basketball Shot
The Incredibly Wide World of Smart Material d3o
New Batting Helmet Offers Protection from 100 MPH Heat
Why Are Reebok’s EasyTone Sneakers For Ladies Only?
How It Works: ESPN’s Ball Tracker Follows Home Runs With Doppler Radar
Swim Watch Counts Your Laps Automatically
Skin-Tight Compression Suit Promises Better Recovery
A Smart Football Helmet Monitors Players’ Health
Cloning Hair to Fight Baldness
NASCAR Driver Fined $200K for 0.17 Cubic Inch Engine Violation
Will Running Barefoot Cure What Ails Us?
Exhaust from Ice Resurfacing Machines Putting Skaters at Risk
The Physics of Free Running