During the last decade the sport technology industry has provided sports with many new digital sport analytics technologies that are used from grassroot to elite level. GNSS and LPS are among the most used wearable tracking technology in sport and is applied to measure performance, health and activity related aspects. Tracking technologies are used in 1) coaching to enhance coach support, educate and guide skill acquisition processes, 2) recreational sport to facilitate and promote physical activity and for monitoring of lifelong physical activity, 3) increase engagement in major sporting events (broadcasting), and 4) facilitate remote sport activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. The widespread use of tracking technologies in the sport society has created a new labor market of societal relevance for sport students. This new opportunity however is not well exploited, and implementations of tracking technologies as coaching support systems are too often not sustainable. The reasons for that are twofold: 1) lack of education in the use, analysis and implementation of tracking technologies in sport science and coaching education and 2) lack of comprehensive information regarding the appropriate choice of tracking systems for a given sport analysis. This leads typically to lack of validity in analysis, suboptimal communication and role understanding between coach, athlete and sport scientist in sports, causing confusion and distrust between athlete, coach and performance analyst and harms the sustainability in the implementation of in sports. This is unfortunate, since tracking technologies have great potential for direct transfer and collaboration between academia and the active sport on all levels from grassroot to elite and holds great potential for employment through sport. This lecture aims at improving the understanding of validity of tracking technology for scientists, coaches, athletes and other users of that type of technology in sports
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