# JO 2024: La réalité virtuelle pour caractériser les habiletés d'anticipation des relayeurs 4x100m

Loïc Chomienne, Martin Egiziano, Laurine Stefanuto, Martin Bossard, Richard Kulpa, Nicolas Mascret, Gilles Montagne

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Loïc Chomienne, Martin Egiziano, Laurine Stefanuto, Martin Bossard, Richard Kulpa, et al.. JO 2024: La réalité virtuelle pour caractériser les habiletés d'anticipation des relayeurs 4x100m. Rencontres recherche-industrie, Apr 2024, Marseille, France. hal-05494706

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Chomienne¹, L., Egiziano¹, M., Stefanuto¹, L., Bossard², M., Kulpá³, R., Mascret¹, N., & Montagne¹, G.

¹ Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, ISM, Marseille, France ; ² Univ Gustave Eiffel, COSYS-PICS-L, F-77454 Marne-la-Vallée, France ; ³ Univ Rennes, Inria, M2S, F-35000 Rennes, France

## Aim

Achieve a better understanding of the perceptual-motor processes allowing athletes to synchronize their displacements during the transmission of the relay baton.

## Task

The receiver must initiate his/her run by lifting his/her foot when the partner passes over the go-mark in the lane.

<figure><img src="image_2.png" /><figcaption>Starting position</figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="image_3.png" /><figcaption>Visual scene projected in VR headset</figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="image_4.png" /><figcaption>lifting the foot</figcaption></figure>

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## Population

Nineteen athletes of French national teams (12 men and 7 women)

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## Material

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## Results

Representation of kinematics sequence preceding the foot lift

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Results show a significant reduction in the variability of motor events preceding the start

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Mean foot lift error shows a good level of performance given the high spatio-temporal constraints of the tasks (79% of athletes are below 80 ms of mean absolute error)

Visual strategies of two athletes highlight the between athletes variability

<figure><img src="image_10.png" /><figcaption>Athlete 18</figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="image_11.png" /><figcaption>Athlete 3</figcaption></figure>

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Partner

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Path

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Go-mark

## Discussion

* Variability (both between athletes and within athlete) decreases during the unfolding of the action

* The heterogeneity of the behaviors must be linked to the specificities of the athletes

* This study supports the importance of regulation processes which, for the best athletes, lead to maximum final stability

## Conclusion

This innovative study sheds a first light on the anticipation skills that allow expert athletes to synchronize their movement when passing the baton