I missed this. But certainly want to see it.
Leave a comment below if you’ve seen the clip on-line. National Geographic has not posted it as yet. UPDATE – the preview promo is posted here.
Joey Hagerty of Albuquerque, N.M., a U.S. senior national member who trains at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and Brian Lee of the U.S. Army, who trained at the USOTC until June 2007, are among the U.S. Olympic athletes and U.S. Olympic Committee sports scientists featured in Incredible Human Machine, a two-hour special presentation on the National Geographic Channel that debuts on Oct. 21 at 9 p.m. ET.
In the segment on the skeleton, Bill Sands, the USOC’s head of biomechanics, engineering and recovery, demonstrates how USOC sports scientists measure the impact that elite athletes put on their bone and skeletal structure as Haggerty does a tumbling pass. Both Hagerty and Lee are shown on gymnastics apparatus. The Incredible Human Machine is a two-hour journey through an ordinary, and extraordinary, day-in-the-life of the human machine. With high-definition footage, radical scientific advances and firsthand accounts, Incredible Human Machine plunges deep into the routine marvels of the human body. An update of the 1975 National Geographic classic, Incredible Human Machine shows how our body works in unexpected ways.
Hagerty, who competes for Team Chevron, was a member of the USA’s bronze-medal team at the 2007 Pan American Games. Lee, a graduate of West Point, trained at the USOTC complex as part of the Army’s World Class Athlete Program. A part of the men’s community program until June 2007, he has since retired from gymnastics.
(via Plats on Gym Chat)
Our other favourite sport scientist, Dr. Jeni McNeal, was recently down at Karoli Ranch collecting data on elite gymnasts.
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