Celebrating champion sports science at the National History Museum (London)
How does science help footballers play better and cyclists race faster? How do you train goalkeepers to anticipate which way a football penalty will go? Why do athletes with asthma win more Olympic gold medals than their non-asthmatic rivals? How do scientists use grip strength to assess an athlete’s physical fitness? These are just some of the questions that leading sports scientists from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and the University of Kent will be on hand to answer at the Natural History Museum on Wednesday 11 June as part of Universities Week 2014.Greg Whyte, LJMU’s