Beidou satellite system helped during Olympics

China’s Beidou Navigation Satellite System played an invisible but important role in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, according to the China Satellite Navigation Office.

The office said in a statement that some Chinese athletes and their trainers benefited from the use of a Beidou-enabled training suit developed by researchers from Capital University of Physical Education and Sports and some other research institutes.

Based on the Beidou system’s high-precision positioning function, the suit helped coaches check and record data about athletes’ location, route, speed and acceleration.

By compiling and analyzing such

data, coaches can adjust training plans and athletes can improve their tactics or maneuvers, the statement said, adding the suit is also able to warn athletes if they approach places with safety hazards.