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in Rio we're going to be 480 timekeepers did blow important 50 tons of equipment since the Latin games the photo finish camera became a lot more precise and accurate the technology we're using now is a photo finish camera that takes 10,000 pictures per second of the first 5 millimeters of the finish line previously it was a camera took 2,000 pictures another technology would be the full star detection system using track and field so we place the pressure sensor in the back of the starting blocks and calculate the horizontal power of the athlete this is done during the entire start procedure so in case of a full start the judge will immediately understand what athlete did a full start touch pads are used in swimming to determine the finish times are the athletes it's the only sport where I hasn't stopped their tan themselves and they have to push the touch pad between one and a half and two and a half kilos this is needed in order to avoid waves that are produced by the athletes to stop the time we're using cameras that film the finish area those cameras are special cameras and take a hundred pictures per second it's late to the timing system and in case of close finishes it allows judges to identify clearly what athletes touched the pad first another new technology will be a laser detection system in archery that scans the entire target so we would know very precisely where the arrow hit the target and get an instant result out of that Omega is going to provide all services which is going to deliver results to the athletes speaking about 28 sports over in two weeks you