{"id":901,"date":"2016-08-16T10:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T10:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=901"},"modified":"2016-08-16T12:07:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T12:07:24","slug":"video-what-sporting-future-risks-and-rewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"Video: What sporting future? Risks and rewards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far in the 2016 Rio Olympics we have seen several world records (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rio2016.com\/en\/records\" target=\"_blank\" >e.g. Ayana in the 10,000m, Peaty in 100m breaststroke, Wlodarczyk in the hammer, \u00a0Qingquan in weightlifting<\/a>). In\u00a0this video Michael Johnson, who yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/36689353\" target=\"_blank\" >lost his 400m world record to Wayde van Niekerk<\/a>\u00a0reflects on the future of sport\u00a0in an age when technology is advancing rapidly.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 480px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-901-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CP_OpenUni_TheFuture_TX_121115.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CP_OpenUni_TheFuture_TX_121115.mp4\" >https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CP_OpenUni_TheFuture_TX_121115.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Note: This video is also available\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/health-sports-psychology\/health\/sport-and-fitness\/sport\/chasing-perfection-how-do-athletes-become-champions\" target=\"_blank\" >OpenLearn Chasing Perfection video collection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far in the 2016 Rio Olympics we have seen several world records (e.g. Ayana in the 10,000m, Peaty in 100m breaststroke, Wlodarczyk in the hammer, \u00a0Qingquan in weightlifting). In\u00a0this video Michael Johnson, who yesterday lost his 400m world record to Wayde van Niekerk\u00a0reflects on the future of sport\u00a0in an age when technology is advancing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,73,106,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caroline-heaney","category-chasing-perfection","category-olympics","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}