An integral part of the Team Brazil Training Center, the Olympic Laboratory has been installed in an area covering approximately 1,700m2 at the Maria Lenk Water Park, in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Park. Complete with a series of last-generation equipment, the laboratory of the Brazil Olympic Committee (COB) is already available to the main athletes of the country and their respective Brazilian Olympic Confederations.
COB’s objective is to use the laboratory to help improve the performance of Brazilian Olympic athletes by providing a scientific support to the Olympic disciplines and using sport research and development. The laboratory enables the supply of scientific data to coaches so that they can make the best decisions in preparing a training program for their athletes, minimizing the risks of injury, improving the quality of the training and resulting in better outcomes in the fields, pools, tracks and gymnasiums.
COB’s sports and medical area is responsible for the coordination and conduction of the works, via its High-Performance Management. "The laboratory is a legacy from the Rio 2016 Games and is being used at full scale during this Olympic cycle that ends in Tokyo 2020. All the work is being done so as to collect and supply data to those who will be responsible for improving training quality for our main athletes", said Carlos Arthur Nuzman, COB president.
The Olympic Laboratory presents an innovating concept in Brazil which enables evaluation, guidance and control of Olympic athlete training close to their actual training site and in a straight relationship of the work group with the coaches of such athletes. The laboratory also supplies a structure of scientific-based information to enable an easier decision making when setting-up and guiding training plans, through performance analysis.
COB opens up the possibility for Brazilian Olympic confederations to increasingly use its equipment and analyses. The confederations technical departments define together with COB how these specific tests are to be conducted according to each discipline.
The Olympic Laboratory became possible by means of a COB initiative in partnership with nine Brazilian teaching and research institutions, and funds from the Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP) connected to the Ministry of Science, Technology and innovation (MCTI). It´s located in the Brazil Team Training Center, built by BOC at the Maria Lenk Water Park, in Rio. The TC regularly receives over 200 athletes of 12 different Olympic disciplines (athletics, karate, artistic gymnastics, judo, synchronized swimming, swimming, diving, snowboard, tennis, sailing, beach volleyball and wrestling). Apart from this area COB is also responsible for the management of the artistic gymnastics Training Center, at the Barra Arena, next to the Maria Lenk, in the Rio Olympic Park.
For more information, please contact:
CHRISTIAN DAWES
Brazil Olympic Committee
Media Relations
Email: christian.dawes@cob.org.br
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