Here's how Cork City Marathon organisers used technology to look after runners

Technology played a leading part in the management of this year’s Cork City Marathon, writes Eoin English of the Irish Examiner.

Here's how Cork City Marathon organisers used technology to look after runners
Sun, 04 Jun, 2017 - 19:18

Technology played a leading part in the management of this year’s Cork City Marathon, writes Eoin English of the Irish Examiner.

There was specialist medical and logistics programmes providing real time feeds on the movement of marathon medical vehicles and on injured runners.

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