ORIS Triathlon Working Group Meeting
Montreux, Switzerland
17-19 November 2009

With 981 days before the Opening Ceremony of the XXX Summer Olympic Games Thanos Nikopoulos, Co-Technical Delegate of London 2012 and Enrique Quesada, ITU Sport Results Manager took part in the ORIS Triathlon Working Group Meeting from 17 to 19 November in Montreux, Switzerland. The three day meeting was held and organized by the Technical Department of the International Olympic Committee. The working group was composed of ten experts from LOCOG, Omega, Atos, IOC, ORIS and ITU. There were several points high on the agenda including discussing experiences with the implementation of the ORIS in Beijing along with the presentation and the discussion of the Draft of modified ORIS Triathlon Document. The participants discussed in details procedures for Results Verification, Protest Handling and Reports Distribution rules and proposed improvements in the Draft. The final Document should be finalized within four months.

Thanos Nikopoulos, Co-Technical Delegate – London 2012:
“London Olympic Games are approaching faster than anyone can imagine. In this ORIS meeting we were finalizing the design of all the procedures, interfaces and printouts for the Games, based on the experience of the three previous. With the principle “no less than, what done in previous Games” we produced a number of improvements in the production and also in the distribution. We were able to reduce the number of kgs of paper (and ink and power) that will be used in London.”

Photo (attached):
Mr Enrique QUESADA, Spain, ITU Results Manager
Mr Thanos NIKOPOULOS, Greece, ITU Technical Operations Manager
Mr John LUNT, Great Britain, LOCOG Sport Manager Triathlon
Mr Tim BARNETT, Great Britain, LOCOG Media, Head of Olympic News Services
Mr Martyn RYAN, Great Britain, LOCOG Venue Results Manager
Mr Enrico RICHTER, Germany, OMEGA Project Manager
Mr Alex ARANDA, Spain, Atos Origin Major Events
Mr Nicolas HUREL, France, IOC Technology, ORIS Programme Manager, Coordinator for Triathlon
Ms Itziar del ARCO, Spain, ORIS Sport Analyst and Technical Editor
Mr Miroslav MARGETIC, Croatia, ORIS Sport Analyst for Triathlon