We like to think of sports as elemental: strong bodies trained to
overcome height, weight, distance; the thrill of earned victory or
the agony of defeat in a contest decided on a level playing field.
But in Game Changer, Rayvon Fouche argues that sports have been
radically shaped by an explosion of scientific and technological
advances in materials, training, nutrition, and medicine dedicated
to making athletes stronger and faster. Technoscience, as Fouche
dubs it, increasingly gives the edge (however slight) to the
athlete with the latest gear, the most advanced training equipment,
or the performance-enhancing drugs that are hardest to detect. In
this revealing book, Fouche examines a variety of sports
paraphernalia and enhancements, from fast suits, athletic shoes,
and racing bicycles to basketballs and prosthetic limbs. He also
takes a hard look at gender verification testing, direct drug
testing, and the athlete biological passport in an attempt to
understand the evolving place of technoscience across sport. In
this book, Fouche: * Examines the relationship among sport,
science, and technology* Considers what is at stake in defining
sporting culture by its scientific knowledge and technology*
Provides readers and students with an informative and engagingly
written study Focusing on well-known athletes, including Michael
Phelps, Oscar Pistorius, Caster Semenya, Usain Bolt, and Lance
Armstrong, Fouche argues that technoscience calls into question the
integrity of games, records, and our bodies themselves. He also
touches on attempts by sporting communities to regulate the use of
technology, from elite soccer's initial reluctance to utilize
goal-line technology to automobile racing's endless tweaking of
regulatory formulas in an attempt to blur engineering potency and
reclaim driver skill and ability. Game Changer will change the way
you look at sports-and the outsized impact technoscience has on
them.
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