Road to Beijing

What a great weekend of sport! You really can’t beat the Final of the Wimbledon open and the British Grand Prix all over the same weekend... or can you, if you haven’t been watching the TV for the past few days then you may have forgotten that the Olympics is just around the corner!

Now I am not going to go on about how we are going to do... but my overall gut feeling is that if it involves water I think we will do well. We have good swimmers, skippers and even divers, so keep your fingers crossed (that doesn't include the steeplechase as the idea for that race is to keep out of the water!).

The thought of this huge event got me thinking, Capgemini had an involvement at the 2007 Rugby World Cup as lead technology partner - so what's going to be new in the technology world at the 2008 Olympics?

In Janie Davies Blog she mentioned some large numbers of IT experts saying that there are going to be over 4000 supporting the games.

That's a whole lot of people, and it's believable because of the media coverage that the games are going to have (take a look at the media coverage of the flame, then multiply by x).

What happens if it all goes wrong?

It shouldn't as there are going to be 200,000 hrs spent testing the system (you would think that that would be enough), but nothing can replicate the full force and pressure on the systems during the 100m sprint. “Insert witty comment about Terminal 5 here”

I will certainly be interested to see how the technology has changed since the last Olympics and see what benefits I see as a user, but something is telling me that I won't notice a change at all... which is a huge shame and I wait to be surprised.

I will update you on my thoughts throughout the build up and during the games to any new excitements and hick-ups (but hopefully not too many of them) and want to hear your thoughts on what you expect. It's been 4 years since the last Oympics and technology has come a long way in that time!

Some nice reading:
BBC article on the UK's 2012 technology
India Times article on how tech will change the Olympics

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You?re a real deep thikenr. Thanks for sharing. # Posted By Marty | 6/20/11 3:41 PM