MathsSport
One, two, three...fore!
What have golfing and grandfather clocks got in common? It's all in the swing...
How fast can we go?
As world records tumble, biologists use statistics to find the limits of human speed.
Acrobatic arithmetic
Changes to the rules of gymnastics left a lot of people unhappy when they lost the "perfect 10".
The footballing mathematicians
Studying maths doesn’t stop you from playing world-class football. Harald Bohr was a Danish mathematician who won a silver medal at the 1908 summer Olympics. He also played for the Danish club Akademisk Boldklub alongside his Nobel Prize-winning brother, the physicist Niels Bohr.
Running the numbers
Is it fair to let an athlete with carbon fibre limbs compete in the Olympics? Sports scientists use statistics to find out.
Football fixtures: what’s the score?
League organisers schedule more than 2000 football matches each season. That’s certainly going to take more than 90 minutes – even with extra time!
Racing with ratios
How do professional cyclists reach speeds of up to 50 miles per hour? Hard work, perseverance, and little bit of maths!
Keeping an eye on the ball
In or out? Sports careers can turn on an umpire’s decision, so now they’re bringing in mathematicians to help make the calls.