The Best Thing About The Winter Olympics Are The Drone Cameras

This year’s Winter Olympics have been some of the coolest to watch, thanks to some talented drone operators providing viewers at home and online with awesome shots of some of the Games’ fastest events. Drones with cameras have been used to record sporting events for over a decade now, but due to a dangerous near-miss incident in 2015, drones have basically been banned from most skiing and snowboarding events for years.

The tech has come a long way since that moment: drones are smaller, more reliable, and safer than ever, so the tech is a big feature of this year’s Winter Olympics presentation on NBC and other affiliated networks. The end results are truly stunning to look at.

The greatest new use of tech for the Olympics is this drone view behind the women’s downhill skiers; the intensity and speed can’t be grasped from any of the other cameras we’re used to.

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