Google Earth helps cyclist Kristin Armstrong win gold in Beijing
By Tyler Cooper | In 2008 Olympics, Training | no comments yet | permalink
When she got home to Boise, Idaho, she used Google Earth to trace the entire course with the GPS coordinates she logged in Beijing. She was then able to design a training schedule locally that best matched the elevations of the Olympic course. Not only that, but she was able to use the satellite views of Google Earth to get a birds eye view of the course and commit it all to memory.
Overall, a very good way to use multiple technologies that many of us have access to already.
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