00:00If you think about sports in general you need three things. You need athletes who
00:04compete, you need a place where they can compete and you need a timekeeper to
00:09measure their results. So the role Omega has as official timekeeper is
00:14absolutely crucial. Without Omega there wouldn't be any Olympics, the same as if
00:18there were no athletes. So this role comes with a lot of responsibility and
00:22we deploy about 130 tons of equipment operated by about 300 timekeepers to
00:29make sure to measure all athletes results throughout all sports, all
00:34disciplines of the Olympic Games here in Milan. We have our devices they can
00:39measure to the millionth of a second. We calibrate it according to the sports
00:43needs. So in giant slalom, parallel giant slalom and snowboarding we are
00:50measuring to the hundredth of a second. In short track to the thousands of a
00:54second. But what counts is which athlete crossed the line first. So even
00:59if they are in the same hundreds of a second, one of them crossed the line
01:04first and this is thanks to PhotoFinish camera technology that we can
01:07understand that very precisely.
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