How data analytics is making vital steps in game of sports

Kenya top swimmer Emily Muteti in action during a past event. [Courtesy]

The 10,000m men’s final at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games was and still is one of the most memorable races in athletics history; Paul Tergat lost to his fiercest rival Haile Gebrselassie by the smallest of margins in long-distance running - 0.09 second or 90 milliseconds.

Every sports person always looks for the smallest of margins that will make them better than their opponent, and on that 2000 summer night in Sydney, Haile dug deep into his reserves to find that extra margin and deny Tergat the only Olympic gold medal he never won in his illustrious career.