{"id":677,"date":"2012-08-07T13:42:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T17:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=677"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:26:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:26:56","slug":"olympic-fever-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/olympic-fever-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic fever continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anette Hosio, an associate professor in MIT\u2019s Department of Mechanical Engineering recently talked to MIT news about the mechanics of sports. From her points of view, what helped Usain Bolt give the record-breaking performance in 2008 is \u201chis unique combination of both strength and the long stride.\u201d In the following video, Hosio also explained the mystery of the \u201cfast pool\u201d from the perspective of fluid mechanics.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"NBC_Learn_Video\" style=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/icue.nbcunifiles.com\/icue\/files\/nbclearn\/site\/video\/widget\/NBC_Learn_Video_Widget.swf?VIDEO_ID=1409065\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"tl\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"NBC_Learn_Video\" style=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/icue.nbcunifiles.com\/icue\/files\/nbclearn\/site\/video\/widget\/NBC_Learn_Video_Widget.swf?VIDEO_ID=1409065\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" salign=\"tl\" quality=\"high\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2012\/3q-hosoi-engineering-the-olympics-0801.html\">3 Questions: Anette Hosoi on engineering and the Olympics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anette Hosio, an associate professor in MIT\u2019s Department of Mechanical Engineering recently talked to MIT news about the mechanics of sports. From her points of view, what helped Usain Bolt give the record-breaking performance in 2008 is \u201chis unique combination &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/olympic-fever-continues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,13],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-engineering","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3100,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/3100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}