Colorful overlays will track athletes’ speed during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics www.theverge.com

The track and field events at next year’s Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo will feature new augmented overlays to help viewers keep track of what’s going on during a race.
In a new video, Intel previews footage that includes overlays that identify the top runners’ names and speeds.
A color trail appears behind them, too, seemingly showing their speeds at different points along the track.
Yiannis Exarchos, executive director of Olympic Channel Services, says it’ll be used to help viewers understand different phases of sprinting events during the track and field competition.
Intel has an expansive partnership to provide tech for the Olympic games beyond the overlay features.