Infostrada Sports Continues its Olympic Involvement

Infostrada Sports Continues its Olympic Involvement

NIEUWEGEIN, the Netherlands, January 15/PRNewswire/ -- The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) has contracted Infostrada Sports to supply all historical data and athlete biographies for use in its INFO2008 system and use its experience and expertise in helping to organise and run the official Olympic News Service.

INFO2008 will follow in the tradition of other Info systems and be the main source of background and reference information for the Olympic Family during the Games, including the 21,600 broadcast and print media who will cover the sport. National Olympic Committees, International Federations and the Organising Committee itself are expected to also make use of the extensive Information.

More than 10,000 athlete biographies and results of more than 100 years of Olympic Games history, as well as recent results on major competitions can be accessed through INFO2008.

Just as critically, information including athlete quotes, news items and facts & figures from the sports competitions in Beijing will be fed into the INFO2008 system, from reporting teams of the ONS.

Infostrada Sports has significant experience in running such major sport event news services, having done so at the Rugby World Cup 2007 in France, as well as the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, for which it won an award for Media Services at the recent International Sports Event Management and Security conference in London.

This will be the third successive Olympic Summer Games to which Infostrada Sports will supply content. It previously supplied data to Sydney 2000 and data and Biographies to Athens 2004, as well as the Torino Olympic Winter Games in 2006.

"For high quality media content Infostrada Sports is the first choice. We have set a standard hard to match or to beat, so we are glad and honoured to be of service again," said Philip Hennemann CEO Infostrada Sports at the signing ceremony.

"Mr Sun Weijia, head of Media Operations of BOCOG, stated gladly that Beijing 2008 will provide the Media Services of the highest standards and that he was happy to contract Infostrada Sports to achieve the ambitious goals of his team".

Infostrada Sports is a worldwide provider of comprehensive sports information services and products. Using state of the art technology Infostrada Sports collect, organise and process facts and figures from more than 100 sports. Infostrada Sports Media Services provides professional editorial assistance to Sports Journalists, Media and to event organizers and offers a wide range of products and services which, though varied in look and feel, have one thing in common: they are all about sports.

Of significant importance in this project, Infostrada Sports will be working even further with National Olympic Committees and International Federations to gather and process information to ensure the highest quality for the International Media.

Source: Infostrada Sports

For more Information please contact: Philip Hennemann, CEO Infostrada Sports, Binnenwal 2, 3432 GH Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, P.O. Box 260, 3430 AG Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, phone: +31-30-600-71-71, mobile: +31-653-24-28-68, e-mail: philip.hennemann@infostradasports.com, url: http://www.infostradasports.com

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