OMEGA debuts Real-Time Tracking System for athletic races

As the Official Timekeeper of the Diamond League, OMEGA new system the RTTS (Real-Time Tracking System) measures the live speed and split times of athletes in real time. During competitions, all runners will now wear a high-tech chip weighing just 16 grams inside the start number on their chest. Thanks to receivers installed around the stadiums, these chips send live split times and current speeds to the systems used by stadium screens and TV commentators – all while the race is still going on. Until now, experts had to wait a long time after the race had finished for timekeeping specialists to analyse the videos and provide an exact breakdown of the data. Now, the information will be immediate, and will enable analysis of each performance as it happens, or immediately after the runners cross the finish line.