The Design of a Cooling Garment for Olympic Sailors

The 2020 Olympics will take place in Tokyo. The expected heat and humidity will cause severe heat stress for athletes. To improve safety and performance of Dutch athletes during the Olympics the project “Thermo Tokyo – Beat the Heat” was started. This is a multidisciplinary project in which multiple universities, companies, sports organizations...

Development of a cold pack for treating sports injuries.

The project includes literature- and field studies to identify the needs of the athlete and the sports club concerning cooling of sports injury. Based on the findings a product line is designed that better addresses the needs of the users. The product line proposal consists of two cold packs intended for single use at the sports club. One cold...