BMW is a corporate sponsor of the US Olympic Committee. Instead of just supporting us financially they also wanted to help technically. We had a meeting with them and decided that we needed a technology that could measure the running and take-off velocity of a long jump. So they developed a system for us. We are now using it at the training center in Chula Vista. Here is an article about it on the ESPN website.
This is an update on a post I made in October 2011.