Sky Christopherson (born January 19, 1976)[1] is an American entrepreneur, Olympic cyclist, world record holder, and motivational speaker.
He continued training for the 2004 Athens Olympics, but after breaking his femur in a bike crash, decided to retire from competitive racing.
"[13] In 2010 he made a bid to return to the 2012 London Olympics, notable by his use of a ‘digital health’ model inspired by Dr. Eric Topol.
When asked how he trained, Christopherson stated, "In prior efforts we did not have the ability to formulate such a complete picture with data amassed continuously 24/7.
"[10] Upon retirement, Christopherson began attending UC San Diego,[8] where he studied Intradiscpliary Computing and the Arts,[11] and graduated in 2006.
"[23] OAthlete, a company co-founded by Christopherson,[10] and another athlete earlier that year, helped the US track cycling team (specifically the women's sprint cycling team[8]) track their health with a software platform that he developed to collect athlete data including the first non-diabetic use of glucose monitors, sleep monitor, and genetic reports indicating nutritional needs and muscular capacity.
"[25] We began to assemble a big-data portrait of each athlete’s health and fitness through a partnership with San Francisco based Datameer and software developed by Christopherson and former Olympic teammate Adam Laurent.
On August 1st at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the company GOLD AI was launched as “the world’s first artificial intelligence platform bridging Olympic medal-winning advice for consumer health and fitness”[28] GOLD AI also has plans to incorporate the revolutionary patch-based biosensor developed by Biolinq, a San Diego biotech company[28] that has raised over $200m in funding, as one of the first preferred partners.
Christopherson held an official role at Biolinq as ‘Director of Connected Health and Fitness[29]’ to help with the initial $100m B round fundraising, and to develop the new micro needle based sensor with multi analyte sensing capabiliies including Glucose, Lactate, Cortisol, and DNA apromere based sending in development.
[30] Christopherson demoed the patch-based sensor for the first time in a live demonstration on-stage with CEO Rich Yang and Co-Founder Jared Tagney in Park City, UT at a Fortune new technology conference.