Have you ever wondered how Paula Radcliffe can run for so long and so fast? Or how Ryan Giggs can still be one of the best football players in the world at the age of 37? Well the obvious answer is they have talent and personal drive to be the best. Without these two attributes it is very difficult to be among the world's best sport performers. However, there are other contributing factors to an athlete's ability to succeed and one of those is the support team that help the athlete optimally train, rest and recover from injury - they are collectively known as Sport Scientists.

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Meet the Sports Scientist will provide you with opportunity to meet sports scientists who have worked alongside some of Great Britain's elite athletes and contributed to gold medals and world championship performances. The exhibition and demonstrations will expose the techniques that Sports Scientists use with elite athletes, which include:

• Training and recovery methods
• Assessment of lung function
• Nutrition and support on anti-doping issues
• Injury prevention
• Sport clothing and technology

Meet the Sports Scientists will give you a great opportunity to gain an insight to what goes on behind the scenes of some of the greatest athletes in the world. So come and learn, engage and maybe find out if your lungs are the same size as an Olympic Gold Medallist.

Liverpool John Moores University, working with the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester was selected to be part of the public engagement programme linked to the International Convention on Science, Education and Medicine in Sport (ICSEMIS 2012). ICSEMIS 2012 which will bring together the worlds leading scientists, academics and researchers in disciplines related to sport in advance of the 2012 Games. The pilot programme, being run by Research Councils UK and Podium, aims to engage the public with science, reasearch and the academic desciplines related to sport using the excitement and interest generated by the Games.