{"id":202103,"date":"2025-10-10T04:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/202103\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T04:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:40:09","slug":"how-auscycling-is-using-ai-in-its-fight-for-olympic-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/202103\/","title":{"rendered":"How AusCycling is using AI in its fight for Olympic medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CORVOS_00036973-009.jpg\" alt=\"How AusCycling is using AI in its fight for Olympic medals\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/olympics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olympics<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__sub-title\">Could streamlined equipment investments help Australia do well at Los Angeles 2028?<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__thumbnail-caption\">The Australian men&#8217;s team pursuit squad on their way to Olympic gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matt de Neef\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author__photo lazy \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Matt-de-Neef-150x150.jpg\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cor Vos<\/p>\n<p>All around the world, national sporting federations are gearing up for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Athletes with medal potential have been identified, performance pathways have been drawn up, and governing bodies are doing whatever they can to maximise their eventual medal count come July 2028.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s certainly true in cycling, and especially in track cycling where there are more Olympic medals available than in any other cycling discipline. And as a <a href=\"https:\/\/dspace.mit.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/1721.1\/162725\/kostecki-kkosteck-meng-eecs-2025-thesis.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y&amp;ref=escapecollective.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new academic paper<\/a> out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) shows, some organisations are taking an interesting approach when it comes to maximising Olympic success.<\/p>\n<p>The title of Katherine E. Kostecki master\u2019s thesis is as dry as you\u2019d expect for such a paper \u2013 \u201cEvaluating the Impact of Equipment Investments on Olympic Medal Probabilities for Australian Professional Cyclists\u201d \u2013 but the idea behind it is simple and intriguing: to use machine learning \u2013 a kind of AI \u2013 to tell AusCycling where to spend its money if it wants to win more medals in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Should Australia\u2019s national cycling body invest heavily in new bikes? Are skinsuits a better place to invest? Is there an optimal split when it comes to investing in different areas of tech? And ultimately, what impact are these investments likely to have on the medal tally in 2028?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These are the questions that Kostecki and AusCycling are trying to answer.<\/p>\n<p>            This post is for paying subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#FF6F42\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Did we do a good job with this story?<\/p>\n<p class=\"reactions\" data-post-id=\"68e86eaaacead6f2fe863aef\">\n                    \ud83d\udc4dYep<br \/>\n                    \ud83d\udc4eNope\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/olympics\/\" title=\"Olympics\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f293d3 olympics\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olympics<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/auscycling\/\" title=\"AusCycling\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f2902f auscycling\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AusCycling<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/ai\/\" title=\"AI\" class=\"tag tag-68e86ee2acead6f2fe863b0c ai\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympics Could streamlined equipment investments help Australia do well at Los Angeles 2028? The Australian men&#8217;s team pursuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-202103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}