Rio Olympic Athletes Are Full Of High-Tech Shoes And Clothes.

Whether the Olympic track and field events, or ball games, shooting and bicycles, triathlon, are inseparable from advanced sports equipment.

As long as we do not violate the rules in the corresponding Olympic events, timely adjustment and improvement of the functions of sports shoes and sportswear can reduce external interference and enable athletes to achieve better results.

The Nike team has designed a zoom shoe for Fraser.

Engineers and scientists in the Nike motion research laboratory first capture the speed and data of her propulsion, then use these information to calculate and design three-dimensional prototypes.

At the same time, designers also get inspiration from the geometric structure of marine organisms and create a pair of lightweight shoes with hard bottom.

Athletes are all high-tech.

Taking soccer shoes as an example, it usually consists of more than 30 different parts. One of the key materials is special polyurethane, which is used for heels, shock absorbing parts and so on. It will make shoes more flexible, light and strong.

A German Basf Inc insider who did not want to be named told reporters that Adidas has cooperated with the company in a revolutionary running shoe, Energy Boost.

It has strong elasticity and shock absorption characteristics. The biggest highlight is the middle sole of running shoes. The high resilience effect of the material can provide a lot of energy for the runner, bringing new experience to runners.

This type of running shoes, mainly composed of foamed thermoplastic polyurethane (E-TPU), is pre heated by pressurized heating, and the original 5 millimeter sized particles can expand as popcorn.

In this process, the volume of elliptical microspheres containing airtight bubbles will increase by 10 times, which is also the principle of elastic running shoes.

Running equipment professional brand Brooks also known as

Touching the wet slippery ground, the rubber ring of the shoes can enhance the friction force, while the spring supported soles will not cause the athletes to lose more energy, and people will feel that they can run faster.

The company's Hyperion shoes have such special soles, and also have no seams to make the feet of the athletes as comfortable as possible, so as not to wear blisters.

Brooks has been selling the running shoes since June of this year, while the Rio Olympic athletes' shoes have been subjected to extra laser perforation to facilitate heat dissipation and ventilation against Rio's heat waves.

Glenn Wright, the global president of the business department, said that the flexible, adhesive, comfortable, lightweight and flexible polyurethane foam was also used by large number of sports shoes manufacturers to make insoles, which helps athletes to disperse pressure points.

Moreover, the new polyurethane insole has a smaller density, a weight reduction of 20% and a longer durability.

In addition to sports shoes, athletes love the "equipment" and sportswear, of which high-tech elements are also very interesting.

Pauline van Dongen, a Holland fashion designer specializing in wearable technology, has recently carried out an innovative movement test with the contraceptive brand SKYN.

They used a thin soft and wearable latex substitute "polyisoprene" to make sport clothes.

On both sides of the trunk, the clothes are made of contraceptive materials and are reinforced with laser cutting grids. The wing like design is very light and close to the body, which helps the long jumpers to keep their balance during the run-up.

Lulu lemon (Lululemon) provides baseball players for Canadian athletes.

The Vancouver based sportswear brand invited athletes to the innovation laboratory, where designers, engineers and scientists scanned the body of each player, simulated the Rio temperature in the artificial climate room, and created the bikini underwear in the infrared way, thereby reducing the vibration of the chest and preventing the sand falling into the clothes.

Everything they provide

They are all made for athletes and wear comfortably and closely.

The upper end of the underwear is a crisscross strip and the bottom is a flat belt on the bottom of the hip, which is mainly to avoid diverting attention from the athletes in the competition.

Lulu lemon has also developed a new moisture absorbing material suit which can resist strong sunlight, harmful chlorine and salt.

Although sportswear can help athletes to mitigate the interference of the external environment through various material designs, their technological content should also be enough to stop the movement itself.

In fact, many sportswear do not advocate pure cotton as summer T-shirts, but other chemical materials.

"It's not easy to wrinkle and wear well," says Su Jun, director of sales of Greater China in the company.

We have an additive used in polyester fiber, and also can resist wind and water environmental impact, and have quick drying and abrasion resistance. It can be used for outdoor clothing.

Other additives specifically aim at ultraviolet rays in the sun (B band UV), thus giving athletes more UV protection.

He also said that the Hostanox (P-EPQ) additive applied to the spandex fabric has greatly slowed down the aging rate of the fiber and is an essential product for making sportswear and bathing suits.

Anta's customized award dress for Chinese Olympic delegation is based on DuPont's renewable energy polyester environmental protection material, which is made from plants and pformed by biotechnology. It belongs to a special kind of fiber.

"Polymer additives and special fibers have many advantages, such as enhancing durability, improving thermal stability, flame retardancy, dyeability and toughness retention."

Su said.

In 1999, the International Swimming Federation allowed the high-tech swimsuit made of shark skin to be used in the competition. However, the arrival of this product has aroused widespread controversy, and the coaches from 15 countries have objected collectively.

This highly technical swimsuit has greatly reduced the friction of water flow and made the flow around it more efficient. This does not seem to fit the spirit of sports for coaches, and is obviously unfair to those who improve their performance through their swimming skills.

Fina subsequently accepted the advice of Swimming Coaches in the Dubai charter and restricted the thickness, buoyancy and length of high-tech swimsuits. The new regulation came into effect in January 1, 2010.