Here at Bath University we have serious ambitions that students and Bath based athletes will win medals at the 2012 Games. We have a great record in sport - for example Kelly Rudman trained here prior to her silver medal at the Turin Winter Olympic Games, and we supported three modern pentathletes in their preparations for Olympic medals. We are working hard to maintain this level of achievement.
Today is very rewarding for me as it's a tangible demonstration of our efforts to bring academic sport science together with elite sports preparations, which in the past have been much more separate. Putting an academic department near the complex in which athletes train on a daily basis is a major step towards better co-operation between academic Sport and Exercise Science and athletes / coaches in order to improve training, competition and recovery from injury.
