Traci Mumford

Sometimes small crowds gather there to watch the drones stick their landings.

One of the main drone pilots at the Games said his team had done test runs with every athlete before the Games started, so the Olympians could get used to that...

Apparently, they are able to decline drone footage if they're worried about being distracted while they're competing.

But one spectator told The Times that, at least for her, the drone footage has given her a new appreciation for some of the events, providing way more detail on what used to just look like a blurry spandex blob racing by.

She said, quote, I think skeleton would be a bit boring without the drones.

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From The New York Times, it's The Headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

Today's Thursday, February 5th.

Here's what we're covering.

Back in the early 1970s, President Nixon made history, announcing he was working toward a nuclear arms treaty between the U.S.

and the Soviet Union.

That treaty ushered in a new era where the world's superpowers acknowledged there was a danger to letting the arms race spin out of control.

has gone up.

The U.S.