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Apolo Anton Ohno, the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian of all time and OMEGA Ambassador, visited the OMEGA Flagship Boutique on Fifth Avenue in New York City on Wednesday, June 16th with his father, Yuki, for a special event in advance of Father's Day.The speed skating star presented his father with an OMEGA timepiece as a special Father's Day gift and met with consumers. In honor of Father's Day, Apolo and Yuki also participated in a forum discussion about their father-son bond and Olympic experience, moderated by WNBC-TV's Bruce Beck."My father has been my number-one fan my entire career and his unwavering support has helped me become the athlete, and the man, I am today," said Ohno. "I'm very excited to present my dad with an OMEGA timepiece as a special Father's Day gift and honor him here today �C I know he will wear his new Seamaster Aqua Terra with pride, like I do."Ohno, who wears the OMEGA Seamaster Planet Ocean Olympic Timeless Collection chronograph, became an official OMEGA Ambassador just prior to the Vancouver Olympics, where he made history. Ohno is joined as an OMEGA Ambassador by fellow athletes Michael Phelps, Sergio Garcia and Michelle Wie.OMEGA has a rich Olympic history, dating back to 1932. At the Vancouver Games, OMEGA served its role as Official Timekeeper for the 24th time, responsible for timing every Olympic event as well as data handling, the display of results at the venues, and the distribution of the results to the world's media. The brand deployed the largest timekeeping contingent in the history of winter sport at the Vancouver Games, mobilizing 235 professional timekeepers and data handlers, 290 specially-selected and trained volunteers, and more than 250 tons of equipment.In addition to its role as Official Timekeeper of the Olympic Games, OMEGA engineered many of the most important technological developments in all of sports timekeeping �C including new technologies for the sport of speed skating, many of which Ohno has experienced first-hand.

The IAAF Diamond League is an annual series of one-day meets which intends, as one of its main goals, to enhance the worldwide appeal of athletics. The 14 meetings planned for 2010 replace the Golden League, whose six meetings were contested exclusively in Europe. The IAAF Diamond League will still include the most prestigious events on the European athletics calendar but will also feature meetings in China and the United States and will kick off its ambitious schedule in Doha, Qatar on the 14th of May.Stephen Urquhart, the president of OMEGA, said, "We are looking forward to timing the performances of the talented men and women competing in the international IAAF Diamond League meetings. We already know many of these top athletes through our association with the Olympic Games and we are pleased to be part of this new initiative which will bring world-class athletics to an even wider audience."IAAF President Lamine Diack reflected on OMEGA's history of timing athletic events and expressed his enthusiasm about the partnership. "Athletics as the Olympics' number one summer sport has had a long standing and historic relationship with OMEGA. Accurate timing and measurement are at the core of an objective sport such as athletics, and the results of the IAAF Diamond League will particularly be in the public's focus this summer as the best athletes in the world vie for more than US$6 million in prize money." In addition to its timekeeping and data handling activities at some of the world's highest-profile sporting events, OMEGA has been responsible for the development of much of the key technology in sports timing, including the Scan'O'Vision photofinish camera with its ability to "photograph time". OMEGA has served as Official Timekeeper at 24 Olympic Games since 1932 and recently extended its agreement with the International Olympic Committee through 2020.