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    "parsed_content": "Medal StandingsPhotosDual MogulsWhere Olympians Keep MedalsFashion at the GamesAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe Drone Games: Flying Cameras Are Everywhere at the Winter OlympicsThe robotic cameras chase behind lugers, skiers and speedskaters across the venues in Northern Italy. Some spectators find they\u2019re as much fun to watch as the athletes. Listen to this article \u00b7 4:09 min Learn moreShare full articleA drone video camera following speedskaters during the women\u2019s 500-meter race at the Milan Olympics, on Sunday.Credit...Vincent Alban\/The New York TimesBy Jason HorowitzJason Horowitz reported from an unassuming white tent near the Olympic ice track in Cortina d\u2019Ampezzo, Italy.Feb. 17, 2026, 5:03 a.m. ETThe fans next to the Olympic sliding track oohed and aahed with each sharp turn. They admired the navigational precision and soft landing. They shouted, \u201cYou\u2019re No. 1!\u201dThey were cheering for a drone pilot.\u201cI\u2019m almost feeling like I am with the athletes on the tracks,\u201d said Ralph Hogenbirk, the pilot operating one of the many drones that have become the buzzing \u2014 and, for some, unsettling \u2014 soundtrack of the 2026 Winter Olympics. The robotic wasps chase behind lugers, skeleton pilots and bobsledders bombing down the ice track in Cortina d\u2019Ampezzo. They are in hot pursuit of alpine skiers in the mountains of Bormio and record-shattering speedskaters gliding around the rinks in Milan, transporting viewers at home to the slopes and ice. All of their unerring following has earned them a following of their own.One night last week in Cortina, a small crowd gathered outside a white tent, cordoned off between a red tractor and heaps of dirty snow, a few yards below the start gate for the skeleton race. Inside, Mr. Hogenbirk sat in a corner, a visor over his eyes, piloting his nearly nine-ounce drone. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTIt hovered behind the skeleton athletes as they collected themselves, crept behind them as they began their mad dash to start the race and then picked up speed, whirring behind the competitors as they shot down the track\u2019s first curves. ImageA drone during the men\u2019s moguls finals on Sunday in Livigno, Italy.Credit...Gabriela Bhaskar\/The New York TimesA screen in the tent showed the drone\u2019s flight path, including when it left the track after the initial curves. It veered left and looped back over construction sites, parking lots, roped-off icy areas and into the cradled hands, red with cold, of Mr. Hogenbirk\u2019s technician.\u201cVery cool,\u201d said Mary-Anne Grotheer, 33, the wife of a skeleton competitor who left the races to watch the drones come and go. Italians shouted, \u201cBravissimo!\u201d and inquired about the drone\u2019s specs. Germans appreciated its engineering. A group of British fans didn\u2019t know what to think.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cWhat the hell?\u201d said Oliver Dickie, 26, a lawyer from London, as the returning drone, its green light blinking in the night, buzzed by on the way back to the tent. He said he imagined it improved the experience for spectators watching at home but wondered \u201chow scary this would be\u201d to be tracked by one.Athletes said not very.\u201cI actually didn\u2019t know they were there,\u201d said skier Lara Markthaler, 19, of South Africa, who competed in the women\u2019s giant slalom on Sunday. She said she had a tougher time with \u201cthe start camera like 10 centimeters from our face. That is what we do notice.\u201d Others couldn\u2019t wait to ski with Skynet.ImageA drone following Sofia Goggia of Italy during the giant slalom competition on Sunday.Credit...James Hill for The New York Times\u201cI saw the other competitors have drones and I was like, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s so cool, and I want to have that for my run,\u2019\u201d said Elin Van Pelt of Iceland, 20. She added with a laugh that having a drone follow her run for a television audience would mean, \u201cI made it.\u201dDrones have been used at the Olympics since the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, but have become increasingly common as the technology improves and sports audiences grow more used to up-close action. In these Games, drones are being called on to do more than ever before.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMr. Hogenbirk, a founder of the company Dutch Drone Gods, which has a background in professional drone racing, said that pilots of the drones had made sure the athletes were comfortable with them before the Games began.\u201cMaybe they hear it a little bit, but it\u2019s not distracting because they\u2019re so fully focused on where they\u2019re going,\u201d said Mr. Hogenbirk. He said that his team had filmed each athlete before the Games, and that \u201ceveryone had a chance to say, \u2018No, I don\u2019t want this.\u2019 None of them did.\u201d Mr. Hogenbirk was speaking outside the tent, where he came to greet his adoring fans after his shift had ended. \u201cPeople are just like filming and zooming in with their phones,\u201d he said, adding that when the drones land people sometimes cheer, \u201cOlympic medal!\u201d Among the drone spectators was Kate Bentley, 26, a data analyst from Bristol, England. She was on a ski trip with friends and decided to check out the Olympics, she said, but found the skeleton athletes whooshing by her at about 90 miles per hour less than riveting.\u201cI think skeleton could be a bit boring,\u201d she said, \u201cwithout the drones.\u201dJason Horowitz is the Madrid bureau chief for The Times, covering Spain, Portugal and the way people live throughout Europe.Share full articleRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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