More than 100,000 hours of testing has been completed to ensure the technology that makes the Olympics tick will run without a bobble. Here's an inside look at this gold metal setup.
The Technology Operations Center in Vancouver is a 5,000-square-foot facility that Ward Chapin, CIO of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics,
compares to a NASA command center, complete with big screens to monitor the events live and seats for about 130 people.
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More than 2,000 people represent the Vancouver technology team, hailing from 30-plus countries. These staff members include locally hired staff,
local volunteers and overseas Olympic Games technology experts.