Technology and Sport Update…
Tour Live through Go Pro
Go Pro signed a deal with the Tour de France this year to put cameras on the bikes of those competing for the first time.
The initiative has already yielded well over one million views through the You Tube channels of the teams involved and captured the most dramatic moment of the race so far, albeit in the aftermath from the camera of a mechanic with the Orica-Green Edge team who are part of the trial.
Go Pro could hardly have imagined just how much the deal could have delivered already and the Tour has only just begun.
Simulating St Andrews
In the almost certain absence of Rory McIllroy from next week’s Open Championship at St Andrews attention will turn to Jordan Spieth who is still on track for a season Grand Slam having landed the US Masters and US Open already this year.
Spieth though has only ever played one round at the world famous course and is honouring a commitment to play in Chicago this weekend meaning he won’t arrive until Monday.
It’s perhaps not quite the handicap it once was though as Spieth says he has been playing the courses on the simulator he has at home, setting the fairways and greens to firm, so he ‘won’t have too many surprises’ when he turns up in Scotland on Monday.
The reaction to this news from those above and below a certain age will be an indicator of how technology not only advances human learning but also divides the generations…
