Ross Tucker – The Science of Sport

 “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.  Cycling cannot be accused of forgetting its past.  It’s not for a lack of trying – many in the sport want to.  Those involved often pretend to forget, and even implore the sport’s followers to set aside their tainted ... read more

So this is a brief post, and it’s a written “mull”, in the sense that I wanted to share with you some thoughts.  Not answers, just theories and thoughts about that absolutely fascinating 2018 Boston Marathon.  As you know, it was a cold, wet and windy day in Boston, and ... read more

Welcome to my coverage of the 2018 Boston Marathon.  The story today is going to be the cold, wet and windy conditions, which impose a unique challenge on the runners.  Expect very slow times, with some surprises because you can never predict who will handle the cold and wet best. ... read more

Sudden cardiac death is the subject of my latest #fourminutemull, and it’s a lousy, horrible, no-good topic.  It gets discussed, or though about, in the most tragic of circumstances, because it invariably means that a young, athletic person has died participating in sport.  Everything else is made trivial by comparison. ... read more

Here’s my latest #fourminutemull, and it’s a trip down memory lane, because it covers the physiology of pacing strategy and the limit of human performance, which is the subject I studied for my PhD. The bit at the end is something I always found enormously interesting. Having analysed the pacing ... read more

Here’s a #fourminutemull I did on Saturday, in the aftermath of Dan Roan’s great work on obtaining a letter that had been sent by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) to British Cycling in the aftermath of the Jiffy Bag investigation.  In it, UKAD lists a series of processes and governance areas ... read more

In addition to the video, some supplementary thoughts.  I’ll be brief! Top Links to further reading In the video, I refer to the interview with Dr Paul Dimeo that triggered the mull.  Here is that article. That interview was itself inspired by a piece Paul wrote ... read more

Today’s fourminutemull today is a continuation of the concussion theme that I raised in Episode 2 last week.  I wanted to share with you some additional points, that I think are quite important to this subject Specifically, I wanted to circle back to a graph that I used in ... read more

Towards the end of last year, there was some controversy in rugby circles when Manu Tuilagi, who plays for Leicester, was cited for a dangerous tackle in a match against Irish side Munster. The citing caused a split in opinion, with notable names like Brian O’Driscoll saying that the ... read more

  Way back in 2006, I started this website in an attempt to offer sports science insights and processes to ongoing sports conversations.  The idea was that you’d watch the action on television, read about what happened in the papers, and then we’d have a conversation about “how” and ... read more