Omega Official Timekeeper AIPS Congress Beijing, May 22nd, 2008.
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Transcript of Omega Official Timekeeper AIPS Congress Beijing, May 22nd, 2008.
Omega Official Timekeeper
AIPS Congress
Beijing, May 22nd, 2008
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
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.
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)
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
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
SAILING
SAILING
EQUESTRIAN
EQUESTRIAN
CYCLING TRACK
ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS
SWIMMING
SWIMMING
Chronograph watch
1936
1 qualified watchmaker 38 chronographs
Since then …
• 1948 Racend Timer (Magic Eye)
…OMEGA
• 1952 Time recorder printer
…has ever been
• 1956 Swim-O-matic
… the most innovative
• 1964 Omegascope
… partner
• 1968 Touchpads
…of the athletes
• 1976 Matrix Video Board
… and the Olympic Movement
• 1984 False Start starting blocks
• 1992 Scan-O-vision