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We are very proud to support Apolo here in Vancouver and look forward to watching him compete,” Omega President Stephen Urquhart said in a release before Ohno’s victories. “Omega has a long history in the sport of speed skating, using its expertise to develop new timekeeping technologies for competition. omega watches guide Apolo is poised to make history of his own here in Vancouver, and we are thrilled to welcome him to the Omega family as an ambassador.”
At the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, Omega introduced its Scan-O-Vision system for speed skating, which digitally measured times to the nearest thousandth of a second as the skaters crossed the finish line, effectively photographing time omega watches guide by fusing time and continuous picture into a single document, the brand said.
During the Winter Games in Turin in 2006, where Ohno won three medals, transponders were strapped to the ankles of speed skaters so that timekeepers might omega watches guide capture a moment of sudden acceleration, the speed round a hairpin bend, or the abrupt end to a challenge as a racer crashed to the ice.