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New Devices Help Track Olympic Winners

Posted by timothy on from the track-more-gymnasts-please dept.

Darren writes "Athletes are going faster, higher and longer and as a result the technology that measures their feats at the Olympics needs to keep up. As a result a number of new devices to help track winners, losers at the Games have been developed, including microchips on marathon runners' shoes, ultrasensitive touch pads in the pool, radar guns at the beach volleyball and cameras that take 1000 images per second."

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  1. Re:Ahem... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I see michael's modding tonight.

  2. The Code Revealed by therealfitzman · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    10 Print Who is teh Win? 20 IF $Athlete=Commie GOTO 30 ELSE=GOTO 40 30 Print YOU LOSE 40 PRINT YOU WIN This code is based on System V or so I have read.

  3. Circle gets the square by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic