Virtual Slopes: The U.S. Ski Team’s New Secret Olympic Training Weapon
The U.S. Ski and Snowboard team is using virtual reality to simulate runs they’ll compete on in next month’s Olympics.
At the Olympic level, every athlete is world-class, and the margins of victory can be miniscule. So for those hoping for glory in downhill skiing, intimate familiarity with the slopes they’ll be competing on next month in South Korea, an innate knowledge of where and when they have to turn, and the timing for each move they’ll make, could be the difference between gold and walking away with no hardware at all.