Anatomy of a Dead Heat: Visual Evidence at the 2012 US Olympic Trials.
The adoption and use of visual technologies as decision aids in professional sport is increasing at a rapid rate, yet the study of such practice is virtually non-existent. Beyond the specific play or call in question, images used as decision aids in sport have immediate and far-reaching material and...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the History of Sport Vol. 31; no. 9; pp. 976 - 994 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2014
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