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How do you gain a hundredth of second at the beginning of a race? How do you improve the service in tennis? How do you guess the place where the attacker will launch his ball when one is the goalkeeper? Certain sportsmen of the highest calibre do not hesitate to approach scientists in order to learn about and improve on the movements that enable them to perform. A minor muscular or technical modification may result in one moving from the rank of the talented sportsman to that of a true champion. For this Report, Matiére Grise has watched from the training sidelines, as famous athletes transform themselves into consenting guinea-pigs whose movements are scrutinised, dissected and analysed in minute detail. Everything is done with the sole purpose of discovering and applying the perfect movement…