The Inside Story of How Olympic Timekeeping Is So Amazingly Precise

The Inside Story of How Olympic Timekeeping Is So Amazingly Precise

Three one-thousandths of a second is less than 1/10th of a blink, less than 1/100th of a heartbeat. But if you’re a speedskater, 0.003 seconds can be the difference between gold and silver. So how are Olympics timekeepers able to get such ridiculous precision and accuracy? For the inside scoop, we talked to Omega’s Peter Hürzeler, head of Olympic timekeeping.

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The Crazy Physics Behind Figure Skating

We already know that figure skaters’ bodies undergo quite a bit of stress during their routines—and we have the pics to prove it. Even so, it’s hard to fathom just how insane these physical forces actually are.

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This Is the "Next-Level" Tinder the Olympic Athletes Are All On

This Is the "Next-Level" Tinder the Olympic Athletes Are All On

Just because you’re warm, indoors, and out of shape, doesn’t mean you have to miss out on the best social networking fuckfest of the olympiad: here’s what it looks like to browse Tinder at the athletic sex-romp of the year.

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What Do You Think of the Sochi Olympic Logo?

What Do You Think of the Sochi Olympic Logo?

Sochi hasn’t been displaying the best of marketing strategies to date, with the world now fully aware that it still isn’t ready for the impending Olympics. Can its logo can help right some of its wrongs?

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