{"id":30663,"date":"2019-08-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cupblog.bluefusesystems.com\/?p=30663"},"modified":"2019-08-05T11:27:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T10:27:12","slug":"martinfourcade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/2019\/08\/07\/martinfourcade\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Martin Fourcade &#8211; the Science behind the Olympic Biathlon Skiing Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>Five-time Olympic Biathlon Skiing Champion Martin Fourcade enlisted the help of two scientists &#8211; Caroline Cohen and Christophe Clanet at Ecole Polytechnique &#8211; to help to decide the best type of wax to use on his skis in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Here&#8217;s how they did it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rwKe2vbJXM0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every year the Gallery of Fluid Motion video contest features the newest and most beautiful research in fluid dynamics. <a href=\"https:\/\/gfm.aps.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch all of the Gallery of Fluid Motion videos here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This video is part of a collaboration between FYFD and the Journal of Fluid Mechanics featuring a series of interviews with researchers from the APS DFD 2017 conference.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by FYFD, the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and the UK Fluids Network. Produced by Tom Crawford and Nicole Sharp with assistance from A.J. Fillo.<\/p>\n<p>For more maths related fun <a href=\"https:\/\/tomrocksmaths.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check out Tom&#8217;s website.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-time Olympic Biathlon Skiing Champion Martin Fourcade enlisted the help of two scientists &#8211; Caroline Cohen and Christophe Clanet at Ecole Polytechnique &#8211; to help to decide the best type of wax to use on his skis in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Here&#8217;s how they did it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":800,"featured_media":30669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2253],"tags":[4016,1137,347,6290,4018,346,349,216,6288,6289],"coauthors":[4015],"class_list":["post-30663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mathematics","tag-aps-dfd","tag-fluid-dynamics","tag-fluid-mechanics","tag-friction","tag-fyfd","tag-jfm","tag-journal-of-fluid-mechanics","tag-olympics","tag-skiing","tag-skis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/800"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30663"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}