AI Takes Center Stage at Winter Olympics, Creating Jaw-Dropping Replays and Live Feeds

AI Takes Center Stage at Winter Olympics, Creating Jaw-Dropping Replays and Live Feeds A suite of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is fundamentally changing how the world watches and experiences the Olympic Games, transforming broadcasts with impossible camera angles and blending vintage photography with instant digital delivery. The global debut of a new AI replay system at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics allowed millions of viewers to see athletic performances like never before [82096]. When American figure skater Ilia Malinin executed a quadruple jump, the replay used AI to generate a three-dimensional model, creating a video that appeared to orbit around the spinning athlete in mid-air [82096]. This "orbiting" perspective is one of many new views generated not by physical cameras, but by AI software that constructs 3D models from standard broadcast footage [82096]. Beyond dazzling replays, the AI is also assisting officials with judging and generating tailored content for social media platforms [82096]. In a separate project marrying Olympic history with modern demand, photographers are using adapted 70-year-old Graflex cameras to cover the 2026 Games [79782]. The vintage equipment, honoring the 1956 Winter Games also held in Cortina, has been modified to transmit its images directly to smartphones, allowing photos shot on film to be shared live from the event [79782]. Together, these innovations highlight a Games where cutting-edge AI creates new forms of storytelling and bridges decades of technological change for a global audience expecting instant, immersive content. AI Replay Tech Makes Olympic Jumps Spin on Screen Vintage Cameras Capture 2026 Olympics for Modern Crowd