Winning the hundredth of a second that will make the difference.
The centimeter that will turn silver into gold.
This is the objective of the Very High Performance Sports Program which mobilizes more than 200 researchers in the region.
Launched in 2019 by the State, this priority research program benefits from a budget of 20 million euros to find scientific solutions likely to help French athletes in their quest for medals at the Paris 2024 Games. The starting point is quite simple,
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there is a correlation when we compare the podiums in the Olympic medal rankings to those of the countries which publish the most scientific articles
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, explains the director of the Sciences 2024 network, Christophe Clanet.
Network supported by Polytechnique and which brings together around twenty major schools.
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In both cases, China, the United States and the United Kingdom monopolize the first places.
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Ten years before the 2012 Games in London, the British had also put in place a system…
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