Cooling products

The heat and high humidity that are characteristic of Chinese summers have a large impact on the human body. Effectively cooling the body under such conditions can greatly enhance an athlete’s ability to deliver a top-level performance and to recover quickly from this performance. As part of its Olympic Innovation Program, DSM is developing an all-round cooling concept that will be made available to the Dutch Olympic athletes for the 2008 Olympic Games of Beijing.

Cooling system
During the previous Summer Games in Athens in 2004 the Dutch Olympic rowers already used special cooling products. In the run-up to Beijing 2008, DSM and NOC*NSF in close consultation with athletes and their coaches have looked at possibilities for improvement and have developed and tested various new prototypes. This has resulted in the “mobile” and fully modular comfort cooling system that was presented on December 4, 2007 in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. Press release.

After-cooling product
The Dutch team athletes will in addition have the benefit of a specially developed after-cooling product. In the run-up to the Games, both the men’s and women’s field hockey teams and the footballers have started using this special cooling bath. The after-cooling project is an initiative of NOC*NSF and innovation partner DSM. For the execution of the project they have set up a collaboration with Innovacent, InnoSportNL, and the Dutch Institute of Applied Research (TNO). Press release.

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