Omega Launches Countdown 100 Days to Start XXII Olympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi

The celebration event was held near the countdown watch Omega in GUM, with the support of the Organizing Committee "Sochi 2014", Olympic champions and ambassadors of "Sochi 2014".
Moscow, October 29, 2013 - The company Omega, the Official Timekeeper of the Olympic Games invited the Olympic champions Viktor An, Lydia Skoblikova and Alexei Yagudin, the famous musician Igor Butman and other ambassadors "Sochi- 2014" to officially start the countdown 100 days before the start of the Olympic winter Games 2014 in Sochi.
On this day, exactly at 20:14 Omega Countdown Clock documented historical moment of switching the dial to mark 100 days before the Games begin. Before the start of major international winter sports events left only a little over 3 months. The excitement and suspense build up to the extent that it reduces the number of days, hours, minutes and seconds on the countdown clock Omega in 9 cities across Russia before the opening ceremony of the Olympics 2014, in February 7, 2014.
Opened the ceremony, Peter Stephan, CEO of Swatch Group Rus, addressed the audience: "One of the greatest achievements of the Olympic Movement - the union of the peoples of the world in the sports arena, as the sport outside of any political differences. Today it is more important than ever. No one knows what representatives of rise of the Olympic pedestal, but one thing is for sure: Omega measure and fix with pinpoint accuracy every second, which led them to victory."
During the Olympic Winter Games in 2014, Omega in the 26th time will be the official timekeeper of these sports. We look forward to the time when we can assist to the International Olympic Committee and the strongest athletes in the world of winter sports.

The Omega events, supported by the All-Russian Olympic movement, was attended by such famous athletes as a three-time Olympic champion Viktor Antonov , the world`s six-time Olympic champion in speed skating and Ambassador of "Sochi 2014" Lydia Skoblikova, the Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin, as well as Ambassador "Sochi 2014", the well-known jazz singer Igor Butman.
In their appeals to the audience, all the athletes noted the significance of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi for the whole country, as well as the crucial role of technology Omega timing in determining the winners of the competition. "Omega measures hundredths of a second, which separates the winners from the participants!" - said in his speech Viktor Antonov.
"We are all waiting for the upcoming Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 as a holiday. I am immensely proud of our country and the Olympic team. I believe that the Olympics - it is an opportunity for Russia, all participants and partners, including Omega, to show our strength, innovation and skills,"- said Lydia Skoblikova.
Besides Moscow, the Omega countdown clock is running in Sochi, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Rostov -on- Don, Pyatigorsk, Novosibirsk and Khabarovsk.
Omega is proud of the close cooperation with the International Olympic Committee, sports federations and athletes, for not only the implementation of time keeping and writing competitions, but also to create advanced technologies specifically for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi.

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