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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