Can Science Build a Champion Athlete?

NOVA: Season 20: Episode 17

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Can Science Build a Champion Athlete?

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PBS | Air Date: February 16, 1993
Summary: NOVA examines athletics and its relation to science and technology after visiting an Olympic training camp that uses high-tech equipment to train competitors. Investigators try to discover how professional athletes are keeping fit. NOVA also wants to know why they are outperforming past heroes and how athletes in modern times are breaking NOVA examines athletics and its relation to science and technology after visiting an Olympic training camp that uses high-tech equipment to train competitors. Investigators try to discover how professional athletes are keeping fit. NOVA also wants to know why they are outperforming past heroes and how athletes in modern times are breaking century-old sporting records. Expand
Genre(s): News, Documentary, Science

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