Beijing 2008 Olympics, amidst terrorist threat , Tibetan human rights protest, started with great galore on 08.08.2008. The 15 days sports extravaganza where athletes from 100 odd countries come and compete with each other. But Technology plays a key rule in order to put these great extravaganza. Timing is always a key in some of the sports like, Swimming. Omega is the official time keeper of Beijing 2008 Olympics game. Every Swimming position is connected to digital recording device, as soon as swimmer leaves its position, the device activated, and remain activated until swimmer comes back to its position. Each and every moment is digitally recorded and telecast to audience for viewing and also for referring in case of any discrepancies.
Another important section where technology placed a key role is Security. Today, no nation is alien from terrorist threat. Even before the Olympics, there was an official threat from a terrorist organization operating from POK. In order to curtail the terrorist activities somewhat around 1,00,000 police men are deployed in different olympic venues. But apart from human deployment, the technology deployment is also there. There are biometric cards for everybody, players, coaches, official etc. Strict x-ray screening of all the audiences.
So in order to make this world sports extravagnza successful, the chinesse official really leveraged technology to their benefit.
Thanks&Regards,
Mohit Kumar
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