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22nd European Athletics Junior Championships Rieti, Raul Guidobaldi Stadium Sunday 21 July 9:00 Market square opening 18:30 Animation and entertainment 21:30 Dance school exhibitions 22:00 4X400m VICTORY CEREMONY 22:30 Final party 23:00 Fireworks 24:00 Special Surprise 18
22nd European Athletics Junior Championships Rieti, Raul Guidobaldi Stadium 11. OMEGA provides world-class timekeeping for Europe’s best young athletes OMEGA looks forward to bringing its unparalleled sports timekeeping expertise to Rieti for the European Athletics Junior Championships. OMEGA has been involved in athletics timekeeping for more than 80 years. In 1932, its pocket watch chronographs were already considered the most reliable instruments available for measuring world-class performance at sporting events and OMEGA’s reputation was such that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) asked the firm to supply all sports timing devices for use at the Olympic Games to be held that year in Los Angeles. The company was happy to oblige, and delivered 30 OMEGA chronographs, accompanied by an expert watchmaker, to ensure precise timekeeping and reliable results from all the competitions. OMEGA has continued to develop and deliver state-of-the-art sports timing and measurement systems ever since, and at the London 2012 Olympic Games, it assumed the Official Timekeeper role for the 25th time. Preparations are well underway for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Every year, OMEGA’s experts deploy teams of timekeeping professionals to sporting events around the world, armed with a veritable arsenal of advanced sports timekeeping and measurement equipment. Their innovative systems include starting blocks and false-start detection systems and the latest photo-finish cameras for the sprints and middle-distance events, as well as height and distance measurement devices for field disciplines. OMEGA records and displays the results with the world’s best equipment OMEGA’s official timekeepers ensure timely delivery of the official results to everyone involvedin the competitions they support. At the events it serves, OMEGA is also responsible for the competitor displays for the athletes and their support teams along with the public displays to spectators at each venue. The official results are also delivered in real time to broadcast, network and print media who in turn relay results and commentary to remote audiences around the world. Though each event requires a specific configuration of precisely tuned devices and systems, perhaps the most famous of OMEGA’s timekeeping inventions is the photo-finish camera. First developed for use at the London 1948 Olympic Games, these cameras solved the problem of grouped finishes by enabling judges to separate the winners from the runners-up. The OMEGA Scan’O’Vision cameras have evolved continuously over the years and the 19
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