Technological Innovations that took place during Tokyo Olympic Games

The Olympic games is an international multi-sport event celebrated every 4 years as a global sports festival by people all over the world. The Olympic games are held in the summer and the winter, with its ultimate goal of achieving world peace through sports.

There were many technological innovations that took place during the Tokyo Olympic games. In this blog post we will be looking at some of the many incredible innovations!

1. 3D Athlete Tracking: The viewers real-time insights and some overlay visualization in sprinting events. Intel and Alibaba have partnered to develop this new 3d tracking tech. The sprinters movement and speed is tracked and shows up a colour coded visualization.

2. Olympics' Fast Track: The Tokyo Olympic track reportedly has a trampoline effect for runners. The designer behind this track agrees that, it makes the athletes 1-2% faster. 

3. Olympic Robots: The use of robots at Tokyo Olympics aims to provide assistance to spectators during the games. There are many robots like the robot mascots, serving multiple purposes. The idea is to also promote widespread use of robots in the society as part of the games legacy. 

                                  

4. Biometric Data Tracker(Archery): For the first time ever, viewers got to see the live heart rate monitoring at Olympics 2020. The audience gets a real-time look at the stress that the archers undergo as they shoot their shot. Even subtle changes in skin color, which are invisible to the naked eye are captured in a video and analyzed. 

Bibiliography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTdnZlSEzUw&t=143s