Tag: IOC
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Legal Gambling In the United States Is Coming or Is It?
Legal Gambling In the United States Is Coming or Is It? When I think about gambling three topics come to mind, illegal March Madness pools, legalized marijuana and the crazy notion that the jury is still out on global warming facts. There are well-funded groups in the U.S. opposed to legal sports betting, weed rights…
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Cisco Video Technology Delivers Throughout The Sports Year And At IBC 2014
Cisco Video Technology Delivers Throughout The Sports Year And At IBC 2014 IBC 2014 is going on this weekend and Cisco is there after a sporting year where their technology helped to power the World Cup Brazil, NBC Sochi Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games. Cisco and TV Globo, a Brazilian TV network and significant global…
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Post Sochi: The Technology Behind the World’s Largest Sporting Event via iQ by Intel
The sports technology integrated into the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Russia was mind blowing as was the over $50 billion International event price tag. I was privileged to once again write for iQ by Intel about a trending topic wrapped in sports tech for the Sports Techie community blog. Sports + Tech By…
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U.S. Olympic Sochi Gold Medalist Ted Ligety Supports Youth Enrichment Services For Urban Youth
U.S. Olympic Sochi Alpine Ski Gold Medalist Ted Ligety is teaming up with Youth Enrichment Services Operation Snowsports to help pay for urban youth to get outdoors where they’ll learn how to ski and snowboard and, in turn, build self-confidence and gain invaluable life skills. At the XXII Winter Olympics hosted by Sochi, Russia, Ted…
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Support The Citi Team For Tomorrow U.S. Olympic Nordic Combined Program And Billy Demong
Our second Every Step of the Way influencer program Sports Techie community blog is about the Olympic sport of Nordic Combined and Team USA athlete Billy Demong’s work with Citi to help future generations. U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist Demong has teamed up with Team for Tomorrow to help spread the Olympic value of respect, excellence…
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Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Fan Safety Infographic
It’s a high stakes game of life and death. Terrorists have vowed to disrupt the winter Olympic games; while Russia has more than 200,000 military, police and secret service agents at the ready to safeguard the athletes and visitors. The Sports Techie community blog thanks Zelda Robbins for sharing a new sports management degree hub…
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America Movil Chooses Deltatre For 2014 Sochi Olympic Digital Broadcast Services To Latin America
América Móvil selected Deltatre to provide digital broadcast services for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games to 17 Latin American countries. The Sports Techie community blog is excited to share this news with fans throughout the region. This comes after the International Olympic Committee awarded the right to América Móvil to broadcast the Olympic Winter…
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Ancient Games Evolves As “Pathway to Paralympics” – Infographic
Sports Technology and Big Data have evolved right alongside the Olympic Games since the Roman Empire banned it some 1600 years ago. The Sports Techie community blog breaks down the “Pathway to Paralympics” Infographic in order to appreciate its place in sport and sports tech history. Paralympic History The Games were reborn in 1896 in…