AI will be used by the Japan Sports Agency to help athletes

Tokyo It has been learned that the Japan Sports Agency intends to update their athlete-strengthening strategy in March, reformulating their policies to specifically include the use of AI in the training of elite athletes for the first time, with an eye toward the 2032 Brisbane Games as well as the Olympic and Paralympic Games. In order to help Japanese athletes better their performances and win more medals, the organization plans to use AI to handle massive volumes of data.The approach will, however, also serve as a warning about the dangers that athletes may encounter from an excessive reliance on AI, such as the loss of their ability to make decisions and feel emotions related to the activity and injuries from excessively strenuous practice.

The strategy is the highest standard for actions to help athletes who want to compete in the Olympics and Paralympics. Projects by the Japan Sports Agency and the Japan High Performance Sport Center (HPSC), a bolstering base for elite athletes in Tokyo's Kita Ward, and assistance programs for other sports groups will all demonstrate it. AI is utilized to establish sports strategy, manage athletes' conditions, and enhance their form. In the realm of gymnastics, artificial intelligence (AI) systems have been used to assist judges at world championships by analyzing and scoring filmed performances after being provided information about gymnastics skills.Universities and commercial businesses in Japan are creating artificial intelligence (AI) systems to assist with curling shot selection and assess athletes' positions in trampolining.

However, these systems are inaccurate since there is a shortage of data, such as game film, that can be used to train AI. AI-savvy human resources are also lacking in many sports organizations. Sources claim that the agency would incorporate AI-related products into the plan it is creating to improve elite athletes' performances, since Japan is lagging behind the US, Europe, and Australia in this area. It is anticipated that the updated approach will contain measures like providing sports organizations with successful AI use cases and improving AI accuracy by collaborating with researchers to gather larger amounts ofAccording to the revised plan, the agency is anticipated to begin using AI in a number of sports in earnest starting in fiscal 2026 and to expand its network of researchers focused on HPSC. "Using AI is essential to compete with the world," a connected individual stated. However, AI is merely a tool to increase productivity; humans still need to make ultimate judgments. The allure of sports will be gone if athletes allow AI to control their play.