For most of the competitors at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the possibility of mounting the podium to claim an Olympic medal represents the very pinnacle of sporting achievement: usually the payoff of many years of blood, sweat and tears. However, in 2008, being the best athlete is no longer necessarily enough: in most events the Gold Medal winner will also have had the aid of the very best sporting equipment.
For this reason, the battle for Gold begun long ago in the offices and testing facilities of research centres, where the sports equipment used by the competitors in the Beijing Olympics has been constantly optimized and improved. Canoeing is one of the fields where extensive research has been performed into minimizing hull resistance using state of the art measurement and experimental techniques, backed extensively by Computational Fluid Dynamics simulation using CD-adapco software…Â Details