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A Winning Idea: How The Cloud Helps Olympic Athletes Avoid Injury

August 09, 2016
For most Olympic athletes, the biggest fear is not failing to win a gold medal but falling victim to a last-minute injury that destroys years of hard work and endless hours of practice. But doctors working with big data and cloud-based software are competing to make those heart-breaking injuries less likely.
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Olympian Cam McEvoy: putting science into swimming

August 08, 2016
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En Garde!: Chris Holmes’ Daughter Is Ready To Fight Olympians With A Steely Sword

Dorothy Pomerantz
August 04, 2016
Of the many GE employees traveling to Rio for the 2016 Olympic Games this month, few are as anxious and as hopeful as Chris Holmes.


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Lights, Power, Passion

August 04, 2016
Lights, cameras, action! The Olympic Games as we experience them in the 21st Century wouldn’t take place without boosting the infrastructure of host cities. In Rio, 250 megawatts of extra energy is required to run the Games. Twenty percent of that energy, or enough to power a city of 200,000 people, will feed into the International Broadcast Center, the hub for worldwide viewing.
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Podcast: How to look after your Olympian

August 03, 2016
The Olympic Games is a once-in-four-years thrill for most fans, with instant experts on all manner of sports commentating from couches around the globe.
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On call for Olympic athletes: MRIs, ultrasounds and digital X-rays

August 03, 2016
The Olympic Games is a festival of physicality, with the superhuman feats of thousands of athletes, a source of awe for billions of mortals spectating from couches around the world. Behind those peak performances are hundreds of doctors, physios, massage therapists, dietitians, conditioning coaches and others.
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Driving peak performance for Rio 2016

August 01, 2016
Think of the preparation for the Olympic Games as running on twin tracks: one for the athletes and the other for the host city. Both will be subjected to extraordinary demands as they go on show to the world. Both have one chance to get it right for these Games.
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This Drone Visited The World's No. 1 Hydropower Plant. Here's What It Found.

Tomas Kellner
June 23, 2016
The American Society of Civil Engineers calls Brazil’s Itaipu Dam on the Paraná River one of the seven wonders of the modern world. The massive structure holds a row of 20 giant turbines, half of them manufactured by GE Renewable Energy. In 2008, they generated 94,684 megawatts, then the largest amount of power ever from a single dam. Itaipu alone supplies Brazil with a quarter of its power, and Paraguay with 90 percent of its electricity needs.
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Kenneth Herd: Technology for Brazil, Technology for the World

Kenneth Herd GE
November 13, 2014
As Brazil sets its sights on becoming one the world’s top five oil producers by the end of the next decade, it is also demonstrating global leadership in another key area — innovation.
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Using ‘Nonobvious’ Sports Training to Gain a Competitive Edge

Stephen Mitroff Duke University
April 04, 2014
Falling just short of obtaining your goals can be excruciatingly painful. While NC State was likely overjoyed to make it into the 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, SMU was subjected to a special kind of pain as being the last team left out. Likewise, Wichita State played an amazing game in the third round, yet fell just one shot short of beating Kentucky—a moment they will remember for a lifetime.
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