The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is all set to give Australian cyclists an edge in their quest for the Olympic gold. After ensuring cyclists with the best bicycles on the block, they have gone one step further to ensure a gold win. During test rounds in the Good Luck Beijing road cycling event 12 months ago, Mick Rogers had a little pill in his stomach when he was riding, and it was collecting core temperature data to a data logger. This pill gave an intensive insight into how his body was reacting to the road, since the cycles were equipped with instruments that measured the cyclist's output and created a detailed profile of the road race course.

The men's road race is over 245.2km on Saturday August 9, while the women traverse 126.34km the next day, this pill alone helped calculate cyclists sweat rates and the collected data helped create "cooling strategies" for the expected hot and humid conditions in Beijing.

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