Technologies used in Tokyo Olympics.

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Every year new technologies are emerging. These technologies are manipulated according to the needs of specific sports and moderated. This year too several such technologies are used in Tokyo making it the best in terms of technology. Here are those - 


1. 3D Athlete Tracking.


This was together developed by Alibaba and Intel. This technology helps viewers track real-time data about the athletes when are in motion. It gives data about the hand swing in degrees and the stride length in meters. This could benefit the athletes in future by recording their real-time data.

2.Fast Track.


This year in the track events there have been improvements in the timings of few athletes which were quite significant. The designer of the Tokyo 2020 track admitted that it had a trampoline effect making athletes run 1-2 per cent faster than before.


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3.Biometric Data Tracker.


For the first time in Archery live BPM was tracked of all the athletes. 4 cameras were set up 20m from the archer. While hitting the target archers are very stable without moving a bit. So to track their bpm this technology was brought in. Indians had very high bpm as compared to Koreans who had relatively very little. This could also be a major reason for the poor performance of Archery.


4. Cool Cloth.



The USA came up with a very innovative idea of cool clothing. Due to excessive heat in Tokyo, the athletes would find it tough to cope up with the temperature. So they came up with a device called RL Cooling which emits the temperature inside the suit and keeps the body always cool. This suit was developed only for the USA.








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