Celebrities Star of Omega pavilion at the Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi

Within two weeks, spectators and fans from around the world gathered in Sochi, the capital of Winter Olympic Games 2014. The pavilion of the official timekeeper of the Olympic Games OMEGA, located in the Olympic Park, has become a meeting place for many celebrities. Champions and Olympic medalists, Russian and international star skated on a unique bobsleigh simulator and shared their emotions from the Games with guests pavilion OMEGA.

Nickolas Hayek, Thomas Bach and Stephen Urquhart

Official opening of the OMEGA Pavilion in the Olympic Park held a little before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games - February 4 - with the participation of IOC President Thomas Bach, CEO Nick Hayek, Swatch Group, OMEGA President Stephen Urquhart and four times Olympic champion Alexander Popov.

Russain Short track team

Almost every day for two weeks after the opening ceremony held in the pavilion OMEGA interesting and truly memorable event. Special meetings were organized for Olympic athletes, not only champions and medalists of Winter Games in 2014, among which were: Albert Demchenko, Adelina Sotnikova, Vanessa Mae, Viktor Antonov, Alexander Tretyakov, Vladimir Grigoriev, Semyon Yelistratov and Ruslan Zakharov, and also the legendary athletes, past Olympic Games champions: Alexander Popov, Chad le Clos, Vyacheslav Fetisov.

Vyacheslav Fetisov, Raynald Aeschlimann and Andrey Nikolishin

To share the spirit of the Olympic movement with the company OMEGA came famous space explorers - astronaut Thomas Stafford and cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. And inspired by the first Winter Olympics in Russia, the celebrated photographer Anton Lange on February 9 personally opened the author`s photo exhibition "Time - gold" in the pavilion OMEGA, which was then available for all visitors to the Olympic Park before the end of the Games.

Alexandr Popov, Yana Churikova and Chad Le Clos

The stylish two-storey pavilion OMEGA, which is located in a secluded spot near the Olympic Park Stadium Fischt is invariably attracted the attention of famous people throughout the Olympics. Guests of the pavilion was the presenter Yana Churikova, the saxophonist Igor Butman, DJ Vitaly Kozak, the designer Vika Gazinskaya, it-girl Laura Jugelia and many others.

Vitaly Kozak, Anton Lange and Dmitry Ignatov

One of the most memorable events was romantic greetings from famous Swiss singer Bastian Baker for Adelina Sotnikova for the next day, after her brilliant victory at the Olympics. Bastian played the Olympic champion for the guests and their song “I`d sing for you” on the OMEGA pavilion stage. The video of presentations can be seen here http://youtu.be/heLF7F1Ky30

Bastian Backer and Adelina Sotnikova

OMEGA and the Olympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi
OMEGA was the first company to receive an official timekeeper of the Olympic Games: that our company has been entrusted to the timing of all events included in the Olympic program in 1932 in Los Angeles. The history of our involvement in the Olympic movement has been more than 80 years – during this time we have developed a number of unique innovative technologies in the field of sports timekeeping. In Sochi OMEGA acted as an Olympics timekeeper in the 26th time.

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