22/07/2024
Randox Health’s unique diagnostic technologies have been supporting Team GB throughout their journey to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games – from preparation to their hard-earned success of over 40 Olympic medals and will continue to help optimise the team’s performance during the remainder of the competition.
Randox’s Vivalytic diagnostics machine has been in action during Paris 2024. These fully automated, all-in-one molecular diagnostic machines are powered by Randox’s unique Biochip Technology and are capable of checking for a wide range of respiratory infections, enabling multiple test results from just one sample
Dr. Lisa Hyland, a Team GB HQ Doctor, said,
“As a Sport and Exercise Medicine Consultant working with elite athletes, it’s important we know the pathogen driving the disease process to be able to target management appropriately. With Randox supplying this useful technology in our performance environments, we can optimally manage both the athletes and wider team safely and efficiently.”
“Our aim, along with the teams of experts assisting our athletes is simple – to ensure that Team GB is in peak physical and mental condition as they get to the starting line.”
Andy Anson, Chief Executive of the BOA (British Olympic Association) adds, “We are delighted to be partnering with Randox for the second time following the success of our work together for Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022.
“Ensuring we have the best performance environment in place for our athletes is critical to the success of the team at an Olympic Games, and sector-leading medical services are key to that strategy.”
Team GB’s Chief Medical Officer, Niall Elliott, said that Randox was helping in three critical areas of health testing for athletes – iron metabolism, vitamin D levels – critical to the immune system and muscle power – and glucose or energy levels. “It is a fascinating journey, the testing we can do.”
Over the last year, Randox have been working closely with Team GB brand ambassadors, to ensure they are perfectly placed to perform their utmost at the Olympic Games. Each of them have undertaken a Randox Health Everyman and Everywoman diagnostic health test package at one of the Randox Health clinics, to measure their conditions as they get to that starting line in Paris.
As one star, Duncan Scott, Team GB’s most decorated Olympic swimmer, put it: “If it makes one per cent difference it’s 100% worth it.”
“Everything you do as a swimmer is being channelled through the window of your technique but there’s external factors such as nutrition, recovery, sleep that contribute those one percents towards how you’re going to be inside the pool when it matters the most. With that in mind, I think the Randox Health Everyman check was spot on and I’m glad that I’ve done it.”
Team GB sprinter and double Olympic medallist Daryll Neita the Everywoman test, calling it, “the most in-depth testing I’ve ever had.”
“It’s amazing that the Everywoman test discovers things that could help my performance whether it’s how I recover to deficiencies but also our sport is about marginal gains, centimetres, millimetres, the finest of margins and through tests like this, it lets you stay on-top of your health helping you achieve optimal performance or even a mental boost that you’re healthy.”
Dr. Peter FitzGerald, Founder and Managing Director of Randox Health adds, “And these technologies are not just for athletes – our diagnostic packages and analysers are designed to make a difference to everyone’s life – to help us make the most of all the opportunities life has to offer.”
Find out how Randox Technologies help Team GB reach Olympic success with our Vivalytic Point of Care testing