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By Mary Murray, NBC News Producer

VANCOUVER – On ice hockey’s “Super Sunday,” police are bracing for crowd control in this hockey-mad country. Three games are being played at Canada Hockey Place. Russia played the Czech Republic, then there will be the much anticipated meeting of Canada and the United States, with Sweden facing Finland [...]

Over at Beyond Binary, Ina Fried’s got a fascinating profile of Omega Timing, the company that’s been managing event timing at the Olympics for over 70 years. Counting seconds now is somehow totally different than it was in 1936.Take the methods for timing skiers:

Less than a century ago, the timing of downhill skiing required someone [...]