National Science Foundation
Science of the Winter Olympic Games: Physics of Slope-Style Skiing
Many mechanical phenomena are explained by a physics professor using Nick Goepper, a Winter Olympics 2014 slope-style skier, as the model. Beginning with kinetic and potential energy, the professor goes on to explain angular momentum and...
CBC (Canada)
How Olympians Have Changed 1924-2014
Why do Olympic athletes look so different now than in the first Winter Olympics? Discover the evolution of Olympian body types since the first games in 1924. Viewers will discover that Olympian body types began with the ideal athletic...
Crash Course
Crash Course Games: #17: The Olympics, Fifa and Why We Love Sports
This video focuses on sports. "Sports" is a pretty broad genre of game, we probably couldn't even cover them in an entire series, but today we're going to do our best to look at the origins of sports as they trace their histories back...