Victoria Drazdova on how AI could change athlete training

Athletes have never known more about themselves.A smartwatch can monitor heart rate and recovery. Another app tracks sleep. Practices are recorded on phones, wearables measure workload, and increasingly sophisticated tools can break down movement and technique in ways that once required specialized equipment.The problem is that much of this information still lives in different places.Victoria Drazdova, a former professional athlete, researcher and head coach at VSA, sees a much bigger opportunity than simply adding another generation of wearables or performance apps.“Right now, an athlete can know how they slept, what their heart rate was, how much they trained and what happened technically in practice, but all of that information is usually sitting in different places,” Drazdova said. “You might have sleep in one app, recovery somewhere else, hundreds of training videos on your phone and feedback from your coach. The real breakthrough will be bringing those pieces together so you can