OMEGA presents the advanced technology of sports timekeeping at the Winter Paralympic Games 2014 in Sochi

While Paralympic athletes from 45 countries compete for the podium, OMEGA, the Official Timekeeper of the Paralympic Games, doing his job, armed with the latest technologies of timekeeping and data processing, allowing capturing and displaying the results of each competition.

Paralympic Biathlon Technology
First, this technology was presented at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. The technology includes an electronic rifle headphones and target. Athletes with limited vision are guided by acoustic signals through the headphones. The first signal - check the individual chip of the athlete, the second - a charge the rifle, the third - the proximity of sight (the louder the sound, the better sight), the fourth - hit or miss.
Paralympic biathlon race consists of three laps with a total length of 7.5 km, intermittent shooting at a target from a distance of ten meters. Biathlete must hit five targets in a row, for each miss his result has extra time.

OMEGA Scan`O`Vision
OMEGA Scan`O`Vision photo finish camera - an indispensable technology commit finish: it allows determining in what sequence and with what results athletes finish the race. In case of disagreement is used the Scan`O`Vision photo-finish camera, recording and fixing points finish rates of 2000 frames per second. As soon as the athlete crosses the finish line, an indicator of its time, descended on the scoreboard and television screens, stops, but the decisive criterion in determining the results are indications photo finish camera - they eventually considered official.

Transponders
The very light and compact device – transponder is attached to the both legs of each of the runners. This device of OMEGA provides a measurement, recording and elimination of intermediate results of the athletes on the video screen and their finishing places in the table.

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