Olympics 2012 Swimming and Diving
The grand finale on the penultimate day of the London Olympics was a surprise event in the 10m men's diving competition,
when the US team took Gold for the first time since the 90s with diver Boudia. Earlier this week, similar surprise events
happened in the women's 3m spring board and the men's 10m synchronized platform diving as well as women's swim competition:
the US women and men took home a record number of medals. We have motion captured three of the US medalists' (Dana Vollmer,
3-times Gold, Abby Johnston Silver, and Nick McCrory Bronce) signature dives and swim styles and analyzed their
summersaults, butterfly and dolphin kicks in previously unseen angles. We deployed our motion capture system to record
Dana's, Abby's and Nick's training sessions at UC Berkeley and Duke University to 3D reconstruct their signature performances.
See the videos below that show behind the scenes footage of our work with the New York Times.
Behind the scenes video for Dana Vollmer Mocap with Berkeley's Olympics Team
Behind the scenes video for Duke Olympics Diving Team