Through AI, Sweden's Head Hockey Coach Will Somehow Be a Sports Anchor for 400 Straight Hours

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Sports broadcasters have to log quite a bit of time. The recent NFL draft, for example, tested the skills of broadcast teams who logged hours and hours for the play-by-play and in-depth analysis from the early morning hours to late in the day.

But they’ll have nothing on Rikard Grönborg, the head coach of Sweden’s national hockey team who will log over 400 consecutive hours during the Ice Hockey World Championships in Slovakia … sort of.

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