A revolution for sport? Olympic vision for AI innovations laid out by IOC

Olympic skiing champion Lindsey Vonn speaks at the IOC launch of the Olympic AI Agenda at Lee Valley VeloPark in London. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

It was an unlikely setting for a revolution. But at Lee Valley VeloPark, where Team GB’s cyclists dominated at London 2012, the International Olympic Committee on Friday set the wheels in motion for how artificial intelligence could transform the sporting landscape.

“AI will be a revolution for our society,” the IOC president, Thomas Bach, said. “And it will be a revolution for sport. It will be a fascinating new lap in the Olympic race – and in Olympic history.”