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From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: August 8, 2008 12:23:16 AM PDT
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Subject: [SPY NEWS] Olympics: Know thy enemy with France's spy software
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http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212162927.shtml
Know thy enemy with France's spy software
by Sophie Hardach
Intricate spy software has helped France's handballers improve their
game and head coach Philippe Bana was hoping to see the dividends at
the upcoming Olympics.
The French started using software combining videos of all the players
in the world with match statistics to train their teams after
Scandinavian handballers successfully incorporated the technology into
their training program.
Studying their opponents' every move, strength and weakness, is meant
to help players devise the perfect counter-attack.
Bana, speaking with Reuters Thursday during a men's practice session,
said the female team "is now able to destroy their (opponents') attack
and defense systems."
Similar software is already widely used by footballers and rugby
players, but it is still relatively new in handball.
France used a rudimentary version of the current system for the Sydney
Games in 2000 but only applied the current software, called
"Dartfish," for the Athens Olympics.
"It's a completely different approach, we have video specialists as
part of the team so now there is this culture of the video statistic,"
Bana said, kicking a stray ball back into the field.
France's women will play the first handball match of the Olympics on
Saturday morning against Angola, while the men's first game is against
Brazil on Sunday afternoon.
In Athens, France narrowly lost to Ukraine and finished fourth,
missing the bronze medal.
Despite the elaborate technology, Bana said the game is ultimately won
on the court.
"It's not a videogame, at the end the player is playing. In the end,
you are alone in the court," Bana said. "This is a human game so you
can't go too far in this (software) direction because the player is
not a robot."
The Beijing Olympics begin Friday.
(Editing by Steve Ginsburg)
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