Presentation is loading. Please wait.

Presentation is loading. Please wait.

Omega Official Timekeeper AIPS Congress Beijing, May 22nd, 2008.

Similar presentations


Presentation on theme: "Omega Official Timekeeper AIPS Congress Beijing, May 22nd, 2008."— Presentation transcript:

1 Omega Official Timekeeper AIPS Congress Beijing, May 22nd, 2008

2 Omega has a unique and fundamental role as Official Timekeeper, and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will mark the 23rd Olympic Games with Omega in this role

3 History of the Swatch Group & Omega with the Olympic Games From 1932 to 2006, 25 Olympic Games have been timed by one of the Swatch Group companies: Omega, Longines, Swatch and Swiss Timing. In 2001, the International Olympic Committee and Swatch Group signed a long term « Master Marketing and Information Technology Agreement » covering 4 Olympic Games: Athens 2004, Torino 2006, Beijing 2008 and Vancouver 2010. This Master Agreement has been recently extended to include the London 2012 Olympic Games.

4 Omega’s role Measure athlete’s performance >> Timekeeping and Scoring Make results out of these performance >> OVR Format these results for distribution >> scoreboards, TV (BOB, NBC), prints, WPNA, CIS, INFO, … Provide all necessary hardware (Except OVR IT)

5 UNVEILING CEREMONY - 21 Sept 2004 Beijing citizen Li Changxin, Athens Olympic Games gold medalist Wang Yifu, Liu Jingmin, Executive Vice President of BOCOG, Stephen Urquhart, President of OMEGA, middle-school student Wang Yu

6

7 Key Figures 28 sports on 37 venues Staff Team in Beijing since 2005 450 people of 19 nationalities Over 1’000 volunteers Material 420 tons of equipment 81 public scoreboards - 322 sports specific scoreboards 175 km of cables and optic fiber for timekeeping and OVR. 65 TV generators - HD only Tests events 39 since July ‘07

8 SAILING

9

10 EQUESTRIAN

11

12 CYCLING TRACK

13 ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

14 SWIMMING

15

16

17

18 Chronograph watch

19 1936 1 qualified watchmaker38 chronographs

20 Since then … 1948 Racend Timer (Magic Eye)

21 …OMEGA 1952Time recorder printer

22 …has ever been 1956Swim-O-matic

23 … the most innovative 1964Omegascope

24 … partner 1968Touchpads

25 …of the athletes 1976Matrix Video Board

26 … and the Olympic Movement 1984False Start starting blocks

27 1992Scan-O-vision

28


Download ppt "Omega Official Timekeeper AIPS Congress Beijing, May 22nd, 2008."

Similar presentations


Ads by Google