Faster, further and fairer: science and sport at King's College London

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Sport has been central to student life at King's College since its inception. Sporting clubs have also been active at Guy's Hospital Medical School and other institutions with which King's has now merged. At the same time key discoveries at King's have led to important advances in the science of sport.

This exhibition celebrates these breakthroughs - understanding how muscles function, thereby allowing athletes to run faster, the physiology of the human body and developments in the science of nutrition that are continuing to improve sporting endurance, and finally examining the ongoing ethical implications of the drug testing of athletes.

Supported by ALM London and proudly endorsing London as the Olympic city in 2012, the following pages also look beyond the laboratory to celebrate the sporting a chievements of members of the College, including noted Olympians.