{"id":217463,"date":"2022-02-15T15:13:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T20:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/?p=217463"},"modified":"2022-02-15T15:41:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T20:41:17","slug":"beijing-2022-nbc-olympics-chip-adams-reports-on-new-tech-at-venues-living-life-in-closed-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/2022\/02\/15\/beijing-2022-nbc-olympics-chip-adams-reports-on-new-tech-at-venues-living-life-in-closed-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing 2022: NBC Olympics\u2019 Chip Adams Reports on New Tech at Venues, Living Life in \u2018Closed Loop\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
Every Olympic Games has its own set of new and unique challenges, but the onsite operation for the Beijing 2022 Winter Games has faced the unprecedented hurdle of operating in a closed loop<\/a>. Designed to prevent the spread of COVID, this bubble has made NBC Olympics\u2019 onsite operations even more complex than usual. <\/em><\/p>\n Despite these challenges, NBC Olympics has deployed interesting new technologies and workflows at venues across Beijing: the Figure Skating\/Short Track venue, Genting Snow Park, the National Alpine Center, and more.<\/em><\/p>\n SVG sat down with Chip Adams, VP, venue engineering, NBC Olympics,<\/strong> to discuss how venue operations have gone so far, how NBC is handling ops for some of the key venues in Beijing, returning to venues from the 2008 Summer Games, the biggest challenges he and his team are facing, and how NBC Olympics\u2019 venue ops have evolved over the years.<\/em><\/p>\n How have things been going with respect to venue operations?
\n<\/strong>Our venue operations are proceeding along basically as expected. Of course, there are the differences in operating within the closed loop: the required mask-wearing, temperature checks, and testing that are part of the protocols outlined in the IOC Playbook. Those are the biggest changes to our operation, along with operating in a very<\/em> cold winter climate in the mountains.<\/p>\n