BAE Systems renews technology partnership with UK Sport
Engineers are teaming up with the nation’s best medal winning hopes as BAE Systems and UK Sport renew a partnership that helped Team GB to success at London 2012 and Vancouver 2010.
The UK defence company and the body that funds Britain’s elite athletes have entered into an agreement worth £800,000 over four years that will see engineers and athletes working together to ensure medal success at the Sochi winter Olympics in 2014 and summer Olympics in Brazil 2016.
Liz Nicholl, CEO UK Sport said, ‘Our goal is to win more medals in both Olympic and Paralympic games in [Brazil] 2016. If we did that we’d do what no host nation has ever done before in recent history at the very next games. It’s a hugely ambitious goal and its right to be ambitious… We have created a nation that believes it can win, so we want to build on that and maintain this momentum.’
Two advances designed to give British athletes the winning edge were announced yesterday with a new set of wheels for wheelchair athletes and a proposed simulator for the British Taekwondo team.
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