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In your view, are activities like cycling and snowboarding valid as Olympic sports? Neither could exist without a significant amount of creative engineering.
by anthomtb 2y ago
In your view, are activities like cycling and snowboarding valid as Olympic sports? Neither could exist without a significant amount of creative engineering.
- playingalong 2y agoThere's a difference between creative engineering enabling the whole sport and creative engineers competing with each other behind the scenes.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoFamously difficult to draw a satisfying line between these two things. The history of every sport is a conflict about exactly this, entire modern sports are the relics of people being unsatisfied with how the line was drawn at one particular time. I'm not saying it's not a good goal to have, just you kind of have to view it as an inherently unsolvable problem to get anything productive out of it.
- Someone 2y agoBicycle-tech wise, little can stay behind the scenes in cycling. https://assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5x5an/6cmP3f8KY4mTfI6hAYCduP/5e606e6e9a6ca688a35e625a25947a3f/Clarification_Guide_of_the_UCI_Technical_Regulation_-_20230101_-_ENG.pdf https://assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5x5an/6cmP3f8KY4mTfI6hAY...: “Equipment shall be of a type that is sold for use by anyone practicing cycling as a sport. Any equipment in development phase and not yet available for sale (prototype) must be subject of an authorization request to the UCI Equipment Unit before its use. Authorization will be granted only for equipment which is in the final stage of development and for which commercialization will take place no later than 12 months after the first use in competition. The manufacturer may request a single prolongation of the prototype status if justified by relevant reasons” So, that gives manufacturers an incentive to innovate, but won’t give teams an advantage for long. Other sports have similar regulations.