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Futuristic Expertise At The Olympics: AI, IoT, And Robots Jean Friend
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Futuristic Expertise At The Olympics: AI, IoT, And Robots

The Olympics are all about emotion – the drama of world-class competitors, the pageantry of medal ceremonies, and the moment-to-moment celebrations of the human spirit in motion.

The 2022 Winter Video games kicked off on February 4th in Beijing, China. Although the Video games really feel slightly totally different due to COVID restrictions, practically 3,000 athletes from 91 international locations are competing in 109 occasions throughout occasions like alpine snowboarding, determine skating, ice hockey, luge, bobsled, snowboarding, and pace skating.

And behind the scenes, there are large technological advances

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The Main Trend Manufacturers Collaborating within the Beijing Winter Olympics Jean Friend
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The Main Trend Manufacturers Collaborating within the Beijing Winter Olympics

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are only a few days away and lots of main trend manufacturers are celebrating the Winter Video games by creating high-tech uniforms for the athletes or creating capsule collections for followers.

Ralph Lauren is again to design the official Staff USA uniform, sticking with the standard pink, white and blue colorway in a set of winter put on that’s additionally designed with temperature-responsive cloth that expands and contracts on the wearer in response to temperature modifications.

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Kim Kardashian West’s Skims model can be persevering with its partnership with Staff USA because

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Winter Olympics: International sponsors quiet forward of Beijing Video games

  • By James Clayton & Jasmin Dyer
  • BBC Information

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Subsequent month’s Winter Olympics is a big advertising alternative for sponsors – a showcase for manufacturers.

Nonetheless, Beijing 2022 can be inflicting an enormous headache for the 13 official company companions of the Video games.

Caught in the course of a diplomatic spat between the US and China – many are selecting to remain silent.

The US, UK, Australia and Canada are among the many nations making a diplomatic boycott of the Video games, though their athletes will nonetheless take part.

These nations’

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Clap, do not chant: China goals for ‘Zero COVID’ Olympics

Athletes will have to be vaccinated — or face an extended quarantine — take exams each day and put on masks when not competing or coaching. Clapping is OK to cheer on teammates, not chanting. Anybody who exams constructive for COVID-19 can be despatched into isolation and unable to compete till cleared for discharge.

Welcome to the Beijing Olympics, the place strict containment measures will intention to create a virus-proof “bubble” for 1000’s of worldwide guests at a time when omicron is fueling infections globally.

The prevention protocols can be much like these on the Tokyo Video games this summer

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Displacement and debt: The hidden costs of hosting the Olympics | Business and Economy News

The Tokyo Paralympic Games kick off on Tuesday, and like the Olympic Games before them, will feature events taking place with no spectators in the stands due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

It’s estimated that Japan spent more than $15bn preparing for the Olympics over the past decade — double initial estimates — all for games that almost no one was able to attend.

Yet even that hefty bill doesn’t factor in the true cost of hosting the games, activists say.

While international audiences are treated to gorgeous aerial views of the Olympics every four years, the residents of the

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The Olympics reveal how conservatives are turning on America

The Olympics are typically a boom time for jingoism: patriotic fervor heightening among Americans of all stripes with each gold medal for Team USA. But this year, we’ve seen an unlikely faction of Americans rooting against our athletes: conservatives.

During a late July rally, President Donald Trump claimed that “Americans were happy” about the women’s soccer team losing to Sweden — a loss that he blamed on “wokeism” turning the squad “demented.” Tomi Lahren called Team USA “the largest group of whiny social justice activists the Olympics has seen in decades,” accusing them in a Tuesday Fox

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What Suni Lee’s Olympics means for America’s Hmong community

When gymnast Sunisa “Suni” Lee stepped out on the global stage at the Tokyo Olympics, she wasn’t just representing Team USA. She was also representing the Hmong community around the world. And the world took notice when she soared to the top of the podium Thursday, winning the gold medal in the women’s all-around competition.

With her all-around gold medal, Lee became the first Asian American to claim that prestigious title and the fifth consecutive American woman to accomplish the feat, following in the footsteps of Carly Patterson at the 2004 Athens Games, Nastia Liukin in 2008, Gabby Douglas in

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Hosting the Olympics comes at a massive cost

The Olympics are a bad deal for host cities. And they’re starting to take notice.

In 2013, when it bid for the 2020 Summer Games, Tokyo thought it would be spending $7.3 billion. By summer 2020, an Oxford economist told the Associated Press that Tokyo’s costs had already more than doubled to $15.84 billion. Local organizers have disputed that total — though they admitted in December 2019 that costs had risen to $12.6 billion. But competing estimates from a national audit board and national newspapers contend it could be nearly $30 billion.

To be sure, Tokyo is a

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US rugby star Ilona Maher delivers brutal stiff-arm in Olympics matchup vs. Japan

American rugby sevens star Ilona Maher delivered a brutal stiff-arm in the United States’ Olympic matchup against Japan on Thursday.

Maher and the U.S. defeated Japan 17-7 in their Pool C game. Maher gave the stiff- arm to her Japanese opponent and finished with the score. She had five points in the U.S. win.

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Earlier in the day, the U.S. defeated China, 28-14. Maher didn’t score in that game, but the U.S. was led by Kristi Kirshe, who scored 10 points, and Kayla Canett, who added seven.

Maher had been in the

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The American women who won gold at the Tokyo Olympics

The starting gun has sounded for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Since the competitions began, Team USA has secured 11 gold medals — seven of which have been won by American women, reported Sporting News.

  • The U.S. is currently ranked third in its gold medal count, according to a running tracker from Olympics.com.
  • The U.S. has secured 31 medals in total, the most of any country so far, per Olympics.com.

Here are the American women bringing home gold.

The women’s 3×3 basketball team

Allisha Gray, Kelsey Plum, Stefanie Dolson and Jacquelyn Young won the inaugural 3×3 basketball

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Some college students say they won’t root for Team USA at Olympics: ‘I don’t like being an American’

Some U.S. college students are refusing to root for Team USA at the Tokyo Olympics, opting to cheer for individual athletes instead of their home country.

Campus Reform spoke with students at the University of South Florida ahead of last week’s Opening Ceremony, with several voicing their support for American athletes who choose to protest their country on the world stage. 

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“I don’t like being an American, either” one student said. “Why is there no free health care? Why are so many people suffering

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What’s the payoff to hosting the Olympics?

The opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics Friday included kabuki, fireworks and a nearly empty stadium. 

It’s not difficult to associate the Tokyo Olympics with the pandemic; the lack of fans rules out the usual pomp and circumstance, and merchandise is still branded as “Tokyo 2020,” despite taking place in 2021.

Economists are skeptical that Japan could possibly recoup the cost of hosting the Olympics. Though estimates for the cost of the Games vary, some experts have placed it at around $35 billion.

“For many cities and many countries, it is a money hemorrhaging endeavor, and it’s looking

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Salt Lake City hosting 2030 Olympics is officially on the table

USOPC is ‘poised and ready’ to discuss hosting the Winter Olympics again, chair Susanne Lyons said.

U.S. Olympic Committee Acting CEO Susanne Lyons testifies before the House Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee about the Olympic community’s ability to protect athletes from sexual abuse, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 23, 2018. Lyons said the committee is ready to start talking about Salt Lake City as an Olympics bid site for 2030. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

  | July 25, 2021, 2:25 a.m.

| Updated: July 26, 2021, 2:09 a.m.

For years, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee has said

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Hosting the Olympics Is a Bad Deal

But some cities still do want to do this, right?

The main answer is that you have the construction industry executives deciding that this would be a wonderful thing for their industry. They’re going to get billions of dollars of contracts. They can line up, of course, the trade unions, and some investment bankers. They hire a consulting firm to do an economic impact study, which uses a faulty methodology and makes some unrealistic assumptions. And they come out with “By golly, this is going to put our city on the map.”

So this is about misalignments?

If, say, Deloitte

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Local anger over Tokyo Olympics reflects just how unpopular hosting the games has become

The Summer Olympics, postponed in 2020 by a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, is scheduled to begin on July 23, 2021, in Tokyo. Even though surfing and four other sports will debut at these games, the locals are not exactly thrilled.

According to a recent poll, some 83{41490b4d0cf0dbc5ec3f65e11fff509c7d6ed2a53a838ebf7adf43f0908f07f3} of the Japanese public wants the Olympics canceled, and protests are frequent. Amid a coronavirus surge that’s left the country short on hospital space and slow on carrying out vaccinations, an association representing thousands of Tokyo doctors wants the games called off. So do Japanese business leaders.

The International Olympic Committee,

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