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  • Are Advanced Prosthetics an Unfair Competitive Advantage in Sports

    Are Advanced Prosthetics an Unfair Competitive Advantage in Sports? After meeting Oscar Pistorius at the Global Sports Forum Barcelona 2012, Sports Techie asked this question to our first ever guest blogger, Claudia Somerfield, in hopes to better understand this issue from a third party perspective with the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London soon to…

  • NFL Draft Prospects Wear VKTRY Insoles For Pro Days

    VKTRY Insoles are inside the running, lifting and workout shoes top NFL Draft prospects are wearing for upcoming Pro Days. The carbon fiber insoles are constructed out of aerospace-grade carbon fiber. The scientific concept is they return energy (like carbon fiber or other advanced materials in prosthetics) through a bounce back effect, with every step,…

  • Amazing Technology Supporting Disabled People in Sport

    The Sports Techie community blog champions the use of sports tech for the disabled athlete worldwide. I am not keen on using the term ‘disability’ or ‘handicapped’ and neither are England Athletics. Instead, there are more respectful and understanding words and terms to use. Accessibility for disabled sports people has improved considerably thanks to the invention…

  • THESportsTechie Autobiography Memoir Coming In 2020

    THE Sports Techie is me. I have been in the sports technology industry more than 25 years. In my birthday month of 2020, it will be 10-years since I launched the Sports Techie community blog, trusted resource and original online sports tech community in America. Visit https://n5y.1cd.myftpupload.com/. Since then, I have made others believe I…

  • Rio 2016 Olympic Sports Trends Content

    Infographic: Explore 2016 Olympic Sports Trends, Via Shutterstock. Find out what sports and words before the summer Olympics were trending around the world for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in the Shutterstock Infographic: Explore 2016 Olympic Sports Trends. I was on vacation in Banff, Canada last week enjoying the CBC real-time broadcast and did not have…

  • Deltatre Forge CMS Platform Powers New World Rowing Federation FISA Website

    Deltatre Forge CMS Platform Powering New World Rowing Federation FISA Website Today, the World Rowing Federation FISA announced the launch of the governing body’s new online home for the rowing ecosystem, www.worldrowing.com. The Sports Techie community blog has a solid track record of announcing deltatre’s pioneering sports technology partnerships you can read more about here.…

  • Spartan Up ! A New Life Strategy Book Written By Joe De Sena, Spartan Race Founder

    It was my pleasure to review the advanced synopsis of the new book, Spartan Up ! Written by Joe De Sena, founder of Spartan Race, this life strategy book and e-book is releasing on May 17th. Spartan UP is a take-no-prisoners guide to overcoming obstacles and achieving peak performance in life. Our exclusive Q&A with…

  • Ancient Games Evolves As “Pathway to Paralympics” – Infographic

    Sports Technology and Big Data have evolved right alongside the Olympic Games since the Roman Empire banned it some 1600 years ago. The Sports Techie community blog breaks down the “Pathway to Paralympics” Infographic in order to appreciate its place in sport and sports tech history. Paralympic History The Games were reborn in 1896 in…

  • The Tech of Sports with Sports Techie

    The Tech of Sports with Sports Techie. The Mike & Mike show and First Take with Skip Bayless and Steven A. Smith on ESPN, move over, the Ricky Bobby Show was in session on ‘The Tech of Sports’ by NetCast Studios. Sports Techie was interviewed on The Tech of Sports (TOS) show by gracious host…