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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u2014 1 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n Tis the season for interesting Olympics stories! \u00a0 Though, since I\u2019m not that interested in sports, most of my clips are a little peripheral to the actual standings. \u00a0I\u2019ll lead off with my favorite: the\u00a0Atlantic<\/em>\u2018s discussion of how people set up the mikes for the events<\/a>.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s take archery. \u201cAfter hearing the coverage in Barcelona at the \u201992 Olympics, there were things that were missing. The easy things were there. The thud and the impact of the target \u2014 that\u2019s a no brainer \u2014 and a little bit of the athlete as they\u2019re getting ready,\u201d Baxter says.<\/p>\n \u201cBut, it probably goes back to the movie Robin Hood, I have a memory of the sound and I have an expectation. So I was going, \u2018What would be really really cool in archery to take it up a notch?\u2019 And the obvious thing was the sound of the arrow going through the air to the target. The pfft-pfft-pfft type of sound. So we looked at this little thing, a boundary microphone, that would lay flat, it was flatter than a pack of cigarettes, and I put a little windshield on it, and I put it on the ground between the athlete and the target and it completely opened up the sound to something completely different.\u201d<\/p>\n Just to walk through the logic: based on the sound of arrows in a fictional Kevin Costner movie, Baxter created the sonic experience of sitting between the archer and the target, something no live spectator could do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And you can pair this with the NYT<\/em>\u2018s discussion of photography tactics for the swimming events<\/a> for more engineering awesomeness:<\/p>\n [Kluetmeier] should know. He was the first person to place a camera at the bottom of an Olympic pool, at the Barcelona Games in 1992. That year he dived the 12 feet to the bottom, only to resurface to find a guard with a submachine gun.<\/p>\n \u201cHe said I had to take it out,\u201d Kluetmeier said. \u201cHe thought it was a bomb.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/a>\u2014 2 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to follow that up with anything, but luckily, there\u2019s this excellent video promoting the Paralympics.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tuAPPeRg3Nw<\/a>\n