Athletes should own their own biometric data. Period. 📊

Hey, recently you may have noticed or didn't notice, but the Australian Open asked one of their athletes to take off a tracking device during the competition. In this case, it was a Whoop. And I suspect it's really about the fact that Whoop wasn't a title sponsor and they didn't want Whoop to get any attention. But underlying this is a really important concept of athlete autonomy and athlete agency. We are really wanting our athletes to own their own biometric data and be able to make sense of that with their team. Not being able to track what's happening in highlevel physiologic stress situations is really a loss in terms of that athlete and her team or his team knowing what's going on underneath that. The slippery slope of course is should player associations let organizations look at this data. The problem is, can a big professional team make decisions about who's playing, who's not playing based on lifestyle, recovery, what's going on? That becomes a slippery slope. But what's not a slippery slope here is being straight up aware that an athlete has the right to know what's going on with her body. They had a, you know, a strap around it. I think it's unconscionable and terrible that we can't get that data just because uh the Athletic Federation didn't get paid. So, you know, if you're an athlete, own your own data, own your own process, and if you're not uh on board with that, you have a problem.