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I’ve always harbored a fascination for bobsledding.

I think the mechanics of it are incredibly interesting: how the crew works together to get moving, the speeds the teams reach, and the iced bobsled track itself, winding and banking and whipping the sled around at gravity-defying angles.

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I also admittedly love the 1993 Disney film Cool Runnings, about a Jamaican bobsled team trying to make it to the Winter Olympics. (In case you didn’t catch it, this blog title is a quote from the movie: “Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up, it’s bobsled time!”)

We’ll all be feeling the rhythm of the bobsled come February.

This year at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Omega will introduce the Omega Measurement Unit, a device that contains a speed sensor, 3D acceleration sensor and 3D gyro-sensor, all of which acquire data in real time.

The measurement units will be attached to each bobsled at the Winter Olympics, recording its speed throughout the entire run and its angular velocity, or the speed of the bobsled as it rotates around the track.

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A three-axis acceleration sensor will allow for continuous determination of the forces acting on the driver during the run, with each access measuring a different acceleration parameter.

Omega said the measurement unit benefits bobsled racers and their teams by providing immediate access to data, which allows them to adapt and improve their training programs.

The bobsled race data collected from the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics also will be shared on TV for viewers around the world.

You better believe I’ll be watching, possibly with Cool Runnings playing simultaneously on my iPad’s Netflix app.


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