Dr. Knight's Insights

Today we have a guest blogger,  my doctoral student, Jeffrey Simpson.  Jeff is a second year student in our department working towards hi...

Usain Bolt made history on Sunday night, becoming the first athlete to win the men's 100 m race at three different Olympics (2008,...

With the Olympics shifting away from the pool and towards the track, you might notice that a race starts but they stop it immediately, call...

The last post discussed impulse (the product of the average amount of force and the time over which it is applied) when landing from a ...

During the first post on the Olympics I discussed how many different injuries can occur when an athlete lands from a jump.  Not only is th...

Yesterday, French gymnast Samir Ait Said suffered a horrible fracture (warning, graphic picture at the bottom of this post) of his tibia/...

 Four years ago during the 2012 London Olympics, I did a series of blog posts about "Biomechanics and the Olympics" which highli...