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Re:Engineering Marvel of the Winter Olympics: A Broom by masklinn on Thursday February 08, 2018 @09:37AM (#16332237)
That is also my understanding. In fact the end of the article states they'd like to get the

> hardware light enough to embed in brooms used in competition so that real-time statistics can be broadcast on television.

but currently it's solely a training tool.

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Re:Engineering Marvel of the Winter Olympics: A Broom by jonwachob91 on Thursday February 08, 2018 @10:39AM (#16332763)
Using those sensors in competition wouldn't alter the skill/athleticism required of the athletes like the directional bristle broom. It would simply increase the amount of data that broadcasters / journalists have to work with, increasing the visibility of the sport.
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Re:Engineering Marvel of the Winter Olympics: A Broom by masklinn on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:10AM (#16333090)
Yes.
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