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- The Olympic Games, a showcase event on the sporting calendar, will come to Paris next year.
- Games organizers plan to use a 5G mobile network to make sharing high-fidelity video more seamless.
- 5G connections could also power haptic tablets for blind people to follow the events.
- This article is part of "5G Playbook," a series exploring one of our time's most important tech innovations.
Few sporting events on the calendar match the Olympic Games in technical complexity. At the next Olympics, which will be in Paris from July 26 to August 11, 2024, there will be a mind-boggling amount of tech underpinning its smooth running.