How The New Paris Olympics Track Technology Helps Athletes To be Fast: Tech Doping?

Tech Behind the Paris Olympics' Purple Track: Engineered for Speed

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In this video, we explore the fascinating technology behind the Paris Olympics' purple athletics track, a groundbreaking innovation designed to boost athlete performance and help them break world records. This year’s purple Olympic track features a new geometric design in its bottom layer, developed by the Italian company Mondo, which has supplied the main stadium track for every Olympic Games since 1992.

Why purple? Olympic organizers chose this color to replace the Stade de France stadium’s former blue track in line with the Paris 2024 official colors. The color grey on the turns is a nod to the track used in 1924, the last time Paris hosted the games. The new nine-lane track is light purple in the middle and darker at the edges, covering 23,114 square meters and taking almost three months to install.

Sustainability played a role in its construction, incorporating calcium carbonate from mussel and clam shells provided by the Sardinian fishing cooperative Nieddittas. The track was created through Mondo’s partnership with the Milan Polytechnic’s Polymer Engineering Lab.

This video dives deep into the new geometric design of the track's bottom layer. Instead of being completely rubber, the bottom layer contains air cells with a new elliptic geometric shape developed through traditional design and numerical modeling. Luca Andena, an associate professor of material science and technology at the Polytechnic University of Milan, led the modeling for the track. The new shape of the air cells in the bottom layer aims to reduce shocks and increase performance. When athletes land on the track, part of their energy is transferred to the track and then returned, ideally creating a net propulsive effect.

The track's softer nature should benefit runners, especially in the final part of sprints, and aid 200m and 400m runners, as well as those in longer distances. However, extreme temperatures and weather could influence performance.

Looking ahead, the next step is to use artificial intelligence to find new geometries that could bring a new generation of tracks to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

Throughout this video, we’ll also discuss the implications of this advanced track technology on the future of athletics, and how it could potentially revolutionize the way we look at competitive sports. Stay tuned to see exclusive insights and expert opinions on how the Paris Olympics' purple track is set to make history.

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