Rio 2016
The Rio 2016 Olympic Games will give a warm welcome to golf after a 112-year absence from the programme. OMEGA looks forward to when its dedication and passion to the sport of golf and to the Olympic Games will come together.
OMEGA and the IOC announced the extensionof their agreement through 2020 at a joint press conference at the Olympic Museum in Lausannein September of 2009.
From left: Swatch GroupCEO Nick Hayek Jr., IOC President Jacques Rogge,
Swatch Group Chairman Nicolas G. Hayek andOMEGA President Stephen Urquhart.
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OMEGA and the IOC announced the extensionof their agreement through 2020 at a joint press conference at the Olympic Museum in Lausannein September of 2009. From left: Swatch GroupCEO Nick Hayek Jr., IOC President Jacques Rogge, Swatch Group Chairman Nicolas G. Hayek andOMEGA President Stephen Urquhart.
The Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be the first held in South American and only the third held in the Southern Hemisphere. More than 10,500 athletes are expected at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, and the organization committees will ensure that all 34 competition venues will be in place and operating. Additionally, in an effort to make these Games carbon neutral, 3 million trees will be planted in rain forest areas out of the 24 million trees that will be planted all over Rio de Janeiro before 2016.
Following an absence of 112 years, golf will return to the Olympic programme and for OMEGA, it will be an opportunity to welcome its friends from the world of golf to the highest-profile sporting platform on earth.
