Handball was created and developed in Denmark, Sweden and Germany in the late 19th century. Originally played outdoors as field handball, the sport first appeared at the Berlin 1936 Games. […] More
Karate’s quest to secure a place on the Olympic program dates back to the 1970s. In 2015, the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee proposed the inclusion of karate as one of […] More
Boxing has featured at all modern Olympic Games since St. Louis 1904, with the exception of Stockholm 1912. Women’s events were a popular addition to the program at London 2012 […] More
The Tokyo 2020 skateboarding courses are a culmination of the designs and experiences derived from a number of world championship and qualifying events. Each course will be considerably larger than […] More
Table tennis has come a long way from its late 19th century origins as an after-dinner game played by upper-class English families. More than a century later, table tennis has […] More
Since launching in 2013, NBC’s Sports Production Operations Center (SPOC) in Stamford, CT, has used each Olympic Games as an opportunity to take a substantial technological leap forward. With the […] More
NBC Sports is going all out for its coverage of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics overseas, but, for this large-scale effort, the stateside team in Stamford, CT, is pitching in with […] More
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the U.S., sports networks audibled and kept on-air talent away from the venue. This is customary for an international event like the Olympics, but […] More
German broadcaster ZDF is bringing the excitement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to viewers in Germany, using its new centralised production facility, the National Broadcast Centre (NBC), based at its […] More
BBC Sport is producing more limited Summer Olympics coverage this year with two live events shown at any one time, compared to previous years, where it gave the British public […] More
The NBC Olympics efforts around HDR are taking augmented reality to a new level. NBC’s graphics-design team and Ross Video’s Rocket Surgery Virtual Productions team have worked closely to bring […] More
NBC Olympics venue operations are always challenged by everything from weather to venue changes and even little things like traveling from the IBC to venues and from venue to venue. […] More
The Tokyo Olympics men’s basketball events are being held at the Saitama Super Arena which can hold 35,000 fans, making it the second largest arena in the world. Of course, […] More
Beach volleyball continues to be one of the more popular Olympic summer sports as it is one of the sports where top talent exists on nearly every continent. TV coverage […] More
The events at the Tokyo Aquatics Center shift into diving mode during the second week, complete with dive cams, cable cams, handhelds, and underwater cameras. More than ever viewers are […] More
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