SportTechie · Feb 7, 2019
US Olympic Committee Deploying Tech Fund to Prep Athletes for Tokyo
Gold medalists Jimmy Butler, Kevin Durant, and DeAndre Jordan of the United States stand on the podium for the National Anthem following the Men's Gold medal game at Rio 2016. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)When Team USA travels to Tokyo next summer for the Olympics, athletes may be armed with new technologies meant to help them perform better against increasingly competitive international foes.
With other Olympic teams, including those of Australia to Britain, receiving significant support from their governments, the US Olympic Committee realized in 2017 that it would need to get creative if it were to remain competitive without a similar abundance of support from the US government.