: Tokyo 2020: Heart rate monitor makes Olympics debut in archery, throws up interesting readings #IndiaNEWS Stress often gets the better of athletes at the Olympics. In sports like archery and shooting,

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Tokyo 2020: Heart rate monitor makes Olympics debut in archery, throws up interesting readings #IndiaNEWS
Stress often gets the better of athletes at the Olympics. In sports like archery and shooting, where one requires a lot of focus, it becomes a major factor.Often coaches and players talk about maintaining a normal heart rate at the time of shooting. These are aspects that the average fan can’t feel or factor in when he/she is consuming the sport.But, thanks to an innovation by World Archery, heart rates of players have been shown live on TV during the elimination rounds of archery of the upcoming Tokyo Games at the Yumenoshima Park.This has been among the many firsts that the sport witnessed during the Games beginning on Friday.Cameras on the field of play measure the heart rate of the athletes remotely, relaying reliable data to the production crew and producing graphics to visualise the stress archers face during competition. Call it good or bad but the archers would not get to see the data as it would be only for the consumption of TV spectators.And it has thrown up some interesting readings that help the audiences understand how much stress an athlete goes through during competition.According to World Archery, South Korea’s Oh Jin Hyek had the lowest heart rates of any archer to begin the first round encounters in...Read more

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