Media Guide - European Athletics
Media Guide - European Athletics
Media Guide - European Athletics
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oMeGa and athletics<br />
oMegA has unparalleled experience in<br />
sports timekeeping. In 1932, oMegA pocket<br />
watch chronographs were already considered<br />
the most reliable instruments available<br />
for measuring world-class performance at<br />
sporting events. oMegA’s reputation was<br />
such that the International olympic Committee<br />
(IoC) asked the firm to supply all<br />
sports timing devices for use at the olympic<br />
games to be held that year in Los Angeles.<br />
the company was happy to oblige, and<br />
delivered 30 oMegA chronographs, accompanied<br />
by an expert watchmaker, to<br />
ensure precise timekeeping and reliable<br />
results from all the competitions. oMegA<br />
has continued to develop and deliver stateof-the-art<br />
sports timing and measurement<br />
systems ever since, and in London in 2012,<br />
the brand served as official timekeeper at<br />
the olympic games for the 25th time.<br />
oMeGa’s innovative tiMinG and<br />
MeasurinG technoloGy<br />
oMegA’s official timekeepers ensure timely<br />
delivery of the official results to everyone<br />
involved in the competitions they support.<br />
At the events it serves, oMegA is also responsible<br />
for the competitor displays for<br />
the athletes and their support teams along<br />
11. oMeGa<br />
with the public displays to spectators at<br />
each venue. the official results are also delivered<br />
in real time to broadcast, network<br />
and print media who in turn relay results and<br />
commentary to remote audiences around<br />
the world.<br />
every year, oMegA’s experts deploy teams<br />
of timekeeping professionals to sporting<br />
events around the world, armed with a<br />
veritable arsenal of advanced sports timekeeping<br />
and measurement equipment. their<br />
innovative systems include starting blocks<br />
and false-start detection systems and the<br />
latest photo-finish cameras for the sprints<br />
and middle-distance events, as well as<br />
height and distance measurement devices<br />
for field disciplines.<br />
from its creation oMegA’s history has<br />
been replete with examples of innovation,<br />
record precision, audacious design, pion-<br />
-eering spirit and a tradition of excellence in<br />
watchmaking. It is proud to bring its spirit<br />
of innovation to the gothenburg 2013 european<br />
<strong>Athletics</strong> Indoor Championships.<br />
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