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Spying is not only going on at the Olympics (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), it’s RAMPANT.

France is using the internet to check out the competition. Someone from the US cycling team secretly rode the competition course in London for this summer’s Olympic Games with a three-dimensional mapping device so the Americans could build and train on a replica of it.

The US sailing team has bought property near the Olympic competition site in Weymouth, UK in order to study the weather and current conditions before the games.
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Forget the idea of the dumb athlete, a new study shows that professional athletes have BETTER brains. In fact, psychologists, rather than coaches, are devising tests to tell how good a soccer player will become in the future.

It has long been known that physical ability and ball sense are not enough to become really good at soccer. A third vital component has often been mentioned: game intelligence, which is the ability to ‘read’ the play, to be always in the right place at the right time, and steal goals. Many people have regarded game intelligence to be almost a magical ability, something that is impossible to measure. But now researchers think they can do it.
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When it comes to professional sports, this is often the case. For instance, not long after Labor Day, the Pittsburgh Pirates clinched their 19th consecutive losing season–the longest stretch of futility in any major professional American sport. Yet, thanks to revenue sharing, television contracts and other non-gate income, Pirate owners have been making millions of dollars annually. In fact, the cost of signing top-flight players to lucrative contracts would take a deep bite out of annual profits, leading some analysts and economists to conclude that if the Pirates turned themselves into winners, they wouldn’t be helping their bottom line.
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