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Nick Hayek and Thomas Bach
On 15 May, the Bienne-based firm announced the extension of its partnership with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) until 2032, including the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 and the Games of the 35th Olympiad in 2032.
The latter will mark the centenary of Omega’s commitment to this sporting event which began at the Los Angeles Games in 1932. Since then, the brand has acted as official timekeeper on 27 occasions, introducing and developing the world’s most advanced timekeeping equipment comprising the starting gun, the tactile screen for the swimming events and the Scan’O’Vision Myria photo-finish camera, which is capable of recording up to 10,000 digital images per second and was inaugurated at the Rio Olympics.
Thomas Bach, IOC President, Nick Hayek, Swatch Group CEO, and Raynald Aeschlimann, Omega Chairman and CEO, were present when this announcement was made at the Lausanne Olympic Museum.
On the occasion of its first participation in the Olympic Games in 1932, Omega had seconded just one person equipped with thirty flyback chronographs. In 2016 in Rio, a team of some 480 timekeepers followed the 28 disciplines included on the program. And no less than 450 tonnes of equipment were transported to the site, including 200 kilometres of cables and fibreoptics. Despite the extraordinarily fast pace of development of the equipment concerned, the aim remains the same: to provide impeccable timekeeping for the world’s finest athletes.
June 15, 2017