Oliver Logan worked for the English Institute of Sports, before joining British Swimming five years ago. As the Head of Biomechanics, Innovation, and Performance Analysis, Oliver helps Olympic swimmers, Paralympic swimmers, and Olympic divers develop their skills, thanks to data generated by Dartfish video analysis. The British Swimming Performance Team focuses on 3 key areas of swimmers’ and divers’ performance: Evaluating Performance Skills During swimming competitions, like the Olympics, Oliver and the coaches decide on the most relevant race events to track for each swimmer competing that day. It could be evaluating factual events: time of the race, splits, stroke rate, stroke count, time of breath. It could also be evaluating technical appreciations: what the start was like, the turn or the finish, sectional times level or race pacing. These metrics are used to compare each swimmer’s performance with their competitors, as well as the athlete’s progression race-by-race. Between or…
