{"id":1438,"date":"2018-02-21T13:50:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2018-02-21T13:50:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:50:31","slug":"winter-olympics-hallams-designs-skinsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2018\/02\/21\/winter-olympics-hallams-designs-skinsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics: How Hallam&#8217;s research fellow designs skinsuits for Team GB"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1439\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/02\/Jon-Hart.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/john-hart\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1439\" data-attachment-id=\"1439\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2018\/02\/21\/winter-olympics-hallams-designs-skinsuits\/jon-hart\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/02\/Jon-Hart.jpg?fit=650%2C650&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"650,650\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Dora Dc&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D810&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1496399360&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Dora Dc&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;35&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jon Hart\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/02\/Jon-Hart.jpg?fit=650%2C650&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-1439\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/02\/Jon-Hart.jpg?resize=241%2C241&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/02\/Jon-Hart.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/02\/Jon-Hart.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/02\/Jon-Hart.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/02\/Jon-Hart.jpg?resize=144%2C144&amp;ssl=1 144w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/02\/Jon-Hart.jpg?resize=50%2C50&amp;ssl=1 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr John Hart<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After Lizzy Yarnold bagged gold in Pyeongchang, <span style=\"color: #ba0046\"><a style=\"color: #ba0046\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/john-hart\">Dr John Hart<\/a><\/span>, a senior research fellow at the Centre for Sports Engineering, explains how skinsuits are designed for skeleton drivers to ensure an optimised performance, including creating a 3D model of the athlete\u2019s body to be used for virtual wind tunnel experiments. Dr Hart has previously developed and tested such materials for Team GB athletes in previous Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full article <span style=\"color: #ba0046\"><a style=\"color: #ba0046\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/skeleton-suits-team-gb-winter-olympics-lizzy-yarnold-dom-parsons\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Lizzy Yarnold bagged gold in Pyeongchang, Dr John Hart, a senior research fellow at the Centre for Sports Engineering, explains how skinsuits are designed for skeleton drivers to ensure&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8708,"featured_media":1440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,104],"tags":[471,472,470,469],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-physics","tag-science","tag-sports","tag-winter-olympics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/02\/skeleton-bob-gallery.jpg?fit=1028%2C624&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8KEAX-nc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1495,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2018\/02\/28\/sheffields-3million-economy-boost-thanks-to-special-olympics\/","url_meta":{"origin":1438,"position":0},"title":"Sheffield&#8217;s \u00a33million economy boost thanks to Special Olympics","author":"Michael Cambell","date":"February 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Research conducted by Sheffield Hallam University shows that the city received an economic boost of over \u00a33million during August last year after it hosted Special Olympics GB\u2019s National Games. 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