• From 6-22 February, the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, will feature not just the world’s top winter athletes but also some of the most advanced sports technologies today. • At the first Cortina Olympics, in 1956, the Swiss company Omega-based in Biel/Bienne-introduced electronic ski starting gates and launched the first automated timing tech of its kind. • At this year’s Olympics, Swiss Timing, sister company to Omega under the parent company Swatch Group, unveils a new generation of motion-analysis and computer-vision technology. • The new technologies on offer include photo-finish cameras that capture up to 40,000 images per second. • “We work very closely with athletes,” says Swiss Timing CEO Alain Zobrist, who has overseen Olympic timekeeping since the winter games of 2006 in Torino. • “They are the primary customers of our technology and services, and they need to understand how our systems work in order to trust them.” Using high-resolution cameras and AI algorithms tuned to skaters’ routines, Milan-Cortina Olympic officials expect new figure-skating tech to be a key highlight of the games.
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- From 6-22 February, the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, will feature not just the world’s top winter athletes but also some of the most advanced sports technologies today. At the first Cortina Olympics, in 1956, the Swiss company Omega-based in Biel/Bienne-introduced electronic ski starting gates and launched the first automated timing tech of its kind. At this year’s Olympics, Swiss Timing, sister company to Omega under the parent company Swatch Group, unveils a new generation of motion-analysis and computer-vision technology. The new technologies on offer include phot
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