Bridging the gap through innovation ahead of LA Olympics

IT was an open secret that the National Sports Institute (NSI) were the punching bag in the recent post-mortem analysis on the Paris Olympic Games last year, with the government agency being blamed for the lack of full-time scientific experts in psychology to put the nation’s elite athletes in the right frame of mind during competition.

With only two bronze medals from the familiar sports of badminton, little credit was given to the research and development done over the decades behind the scenes.