RFID chips plan to go mainstream in Tack and Field

Recently I have discovered that the use of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) chips during races have been steadily gaining popularity within the sport. According to the website speedendurance.com, the chips are being strapped to the shoes of athletes particularly during road races and long distant races on the track such as the 10,000 meter and the 5,000 meter. The chips have the capability of tracking the location of athletes 25 times per second and will allow officials to track how fast athletes are moving and the speed at which they are accelerating. RFID was used at the 2008 Beijng Olympics in the 10,000 meter event for tracking the splits on every lap. As quoted ont the website Boston.com, the RFID chip other wise known as Lynx was founded "by MIT grads almost twenty years ago, has high hopes for the new system, which it describes as "radar for sports."  Players wearing the battery-powered, ultra-wideband tracking chips — which are a bit smaller than a book of matches — can be located in a stadium within about six inches." Lynx is considered to be a localized indoor gps system due to its superb tracking capabilities. The product makers have hopes of  Lynx extending further to the sport of football where one will be able to see an actual first down in pile up and even further extending to horse racing. According to speedendurance.com "At the Reggie Lewis Center, the chips talk to six wireless data receivers located around the building. The collected data about players’ location can be viewed in real-time on a laptop, to give announcers information about estimated finish times, for instance, or can be replayed afterward by a coach to help runners identify the points in a race where they may have slowed down." A feature that would greatly help both coaches and athletes in evaluating their performances. Many advocates of the RFID chip are anxious to see the chip being used on a super athelete such as Usain Bolt who's superb speed could now be broken down accurately with the chip recording his 10meter splits. I have attached a youtube video of what the Lynx RFID chip can do. Enjoy!!!