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technology brings to their sport, which is exposure to a wider audience, and sometimes a younger audience.”OBS deployed over 1,000 cameras in Rio, including more than 160 Super Slow Motion and High Speed Slow Motion cameras systems, which allowed viewers to see, up-close, the sweat, stress and emotion of athletes like never before. Meanwhile, new angles were also provided by mini point-of-view and on-board cameras, memorably in the Rio Olympic Velodrome, where fans could gain an exhilarating, head-on perspective of the track cycling races. And elsewhere, OBS broke new ground by using drone cameras for the fi rst time in a summer edition of the Games, providing a dynamic viewpoint of the canoe sprint and rowing events.In fact, OBS – whose workforce exceeded 7,200 for the Games – were omnipresent in the host city, even atop Sugarloaf Mountain, from where stunning panoramic shots of Rio were taken with Beauty Cameras and made available to RHBs. And thanks to the Multi Clips Feed, which, like the OVP, was launched by OBS at Sochi 2014 and expanded for Rio 2016, RHBs could cherry-pick pre-competition content and atmospheric venue shots from up to 10 concurrent feeds. This, along with the multi-channel distribution service, which included 12 sports channels and a free-of-charge Olympic News Channel, ensured that in delivering 7,100 hours of total coverage, OBS made more content available to RHBs than in any previous edition of the Games – while also helping them to reduce costs, personnel and broadcast footprint in the host city.But despite the enormity and complexity of the Rio 2016 broadcast effort, OBS didn’t restrict themselves to using modern, established broadcast techniques only for the present. At the same time, they were also looking to the future. Right Virtual Reality (VR) headsets gave fans a different view of the GamesBelow New VR camera systems put the viewer in the middle of the action1,000+CAMERAS deployed by OBS for the coverage of the GamesOLYMPIC BROADCASTING38 OLYMPIC REVIEW