Discovery lines-up improved expert analysis and an updated Cube for Beijing Winter Olympics coverage Additions planned despite distraction' of COVID-19 and back-to-back Olympics By Will Strauss, Editor
Monday, January 24, 2022 - 16:22
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Beijing 2022 viewers on Discovery and Eurosport will be treated to improved expert analysis, an updated version of The Cube mixed reality studio and even more athlete stories as part of Discovery's extensive plans for the winter games.
The broadcaster, speaking at an online launch event on Monday 24 January, revealed that it will show 1,200 live hours of coverage across its linear and digital platforms, including Discovery , Eurosport and the Eurosport app, and will place a renewed focus on expert analysis, making use of 107 winter sports experts and presenters in order to make Discovery the natural home for people who want to learn more [about winter sports].
Discovery's The Cube presentation studio has also been remodelled to make it more immersive, with 26 different environments' available to use including a virtual bar area and ski lifts while 3D actors are also being added, rendered using Vizrt graphics technology. The use of Unreal Engine will allow environments to be changed quickly by the Discovery production team.
It should feel like you're in a James Bond lair watching the Winter Games, said Scott Young, senior vice president of content and production for Discovery.
For more information about the updated Cube go to: https://www.svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/discovery-uncovers-its-rapid-technical-evolution-for-complete-decentralised-remote-production-and-the-augmented-cube-for-the-beijing-winter-olympics/
Expert analysis will also be increased and enhanced for Beijing 2022, added Young. We get world-class pictures from [host broadcaster] Olympic Broadcasting Services [OBS] and we know the sport is covered brilliantly. Our role is to unlock the achievement of every athlete, their achievements, their successes, their failures and to understand what they went through to achieve their goals.
It's about having the right athletes to explain [what is going on]. We need the competitors and the experts to help viewers understand what has taken place.
We know fans at home can't travel to China as they couldn't in Japan so even more these days, it's important to bring every part of that story into living rooms and the devices in people's hands who want to enjoy the Games.
This will be done partly through teleporting' experts, coaches and competitors into The Cube.
[We have] green screens all across Europe so we can teleport people in, continued Young. We're going to do that from Beijing too if the COVID environment allows us just so we can give the viewers the best experience.
We know fans at home can't travel to China as they couldn't in Japan so even more these days, it's important to bring every part of that story into living rooms and the devices in people's hands who want to enjoy the Games.
That best experience' will also be about providing a depth of information and coverage that national and public broadcasters are unlikely to be able to match.
What differentiates us, said Andrew Georgiou, president of sport for Discovery (pictured above), is that we are a dedicated sports platform. Free-to-air broadcaster coverage needs to appeal to a more general audience. We provide the real detail. We are the natural home for people who want to learn more [about winter sports].
While the thorny subject of human rights issues in China will be covered, the focus for Discovery will be on the extraordinary feats of human achievement.
There is no doubt that [human rights in China] is a massively important issue, said Georgiou. Discovery is really focussed on social issues and we've made a big commitment to diversity and inclusion within our own organisation, it's not a topic that we want to shy away from, we're going to address it.
But we're also a sports broadcaster and we will also be focussed on athlete performances and what's going on on the big stage and doing the best we can to show those stories. Hopefully, the Olympics should shine a light on that and bring all the Olympics back to a really interesting story for the consumer.
Discovery will look to not only connect fans to the action but also connect athletes to their friends and family, who cannot be present in Beijing, and then relay that emotion on-screen to the viewer.
OBS' Athlete Moment - Family & Friends service will play a role in this, allowing Olympians, at selected venues, to interact live, straight after their competition, with loved ones back home through dedicated Athlete Moment stations.
This was thought up pretty quickly [for Tokyo] when it was clear that spectators and friends and family couldn't attend, said Young (pictured below in conversation with Discovery presenter Radzi Chinyanganya inside The Cube).
We can participate in that and included that [content] in our coverage. I think we will see that for many Olympics to come.
Original athlete-focused content has also been produced by Discovery Eurosport for the Winter Games. This includes One Last Push, which follows Summer Olympic gold medalist Greg Rutherford as he bids to represent Team GB in the four-man bob at Beijing 2022, and Leijonat kohti Pekingi 2022 (Lions Road to Beijing 2022), a behind-the-scenes with the national ice hockey team of Finland as they step up their preparation for the Games.
In addition to the live-action, a daily digital show called Beijing Today will bring fans the latest reaction and analysis from the day's action.
Asked about the overall impact of COVID on production plans, Young acknowledged that it's not been easy for the Discove
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Discovery lines-up improved expert analysis and an updated Cube for Beijing Winter Olympics coverage Additions planned despite distraction' of COVID-19 and back-to-back Olympics By Will Strauss, Editor 
