Steve Hake

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55 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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FT Tech Tonic · Rewiring sport: How technology is helping athletes break barriers · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

petrified so I had to be the timer Andre de Grasse ran down as fast as he could and it was just like bits of gravel just spurting everywhere and he got down and I pressed stop and it was like 11 seconds oh my god 11 seconds that's terrible like the day before he'd done 10 seconds who knows what it was that slowed him down

Here's academic Steve Hake.

So there's this balance between tradition and technology.

And some sports like cricket just go, no, it's a wooden bat.

That's all you're going to get.

You're never going to get a carbon fiber bat.

Tennis goes, okay, we'll allow carbon fiber, but they can only be this long.

They can only be this wide.

They can only do certain things.

So having a good set of rules is the way to control what is allowed.

So the rules of physics says we can do all of this.

We could put wheels on the bottom of someone's running shoes if we really wanted to, a rocket pack.

All these things are all possible.

So the rules of the sport define how much technology is used.

And once you've made that definition, you go for it.

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