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 Galanis
Sports Data, a member of the Intracom Group since 1999, was
founded in 1984. The company provides computerized coverage of
all sports events, while it offers to event organizers all
necessary information in various forms and media, such as hard
copies, printed material, CD-ROMs, DVDs, electronic updating,
closed TV-circuits, TV-inserts, Internet, mobile communication
and telephony, etc. The company covers all these events using
its own personnel (300 experts all over Greece), hardware and
software by in-situ collection of data and results and on-line
data processing, management and presentation.
Over the past 19 years, Galanis Sports Data has gained valuable
experience and wide recognition by covering and/or organizing a
multitude of various events, at both national and international
level.
Galanis Sports Data also covers all European competition matches
for the Greek teams in football, basketball, volleyball,
handball and waterpolo matches and has extensive collaboration
with all television channels.
During the course of a typical year over 2500 events are covered in
team and individual sports.
Galanis Sports Data has covered almost all major sports events
which have been held in Greece including the 9th European
Veterans’ Track & Field Championships (1994), Cosmovolley
(1994), Eurovolley (1995), the VI IAFF World Marathon Cup
(1995), Eurobasket (1995), Junior’s Mundobasket (1995),
WorldBasket (1998), European Men’s Basketball FINAL FOUR (2000),
Athens Grand Prix “Tsiklitiria” (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002) and the
47th Acropolis Rally (2000). On the international scene, the
company covered the European Women’s Basketball FINAL FOUR in
Sofia, Bulgaria, the European Men’s Basketball FINAL FOUR in
Rome, Italy and the National Championships in Football and
Basketball in Cyprus.
Accreditation services are provided by Galanis Sports
Data, which has developed an application that fully covers the
needs of the sports organizers, including circulation studies
and maps, and has been used with great success in the European
Veterans’ Track & Field Championship, Cosmovolley ‘94,
Eurobasket ‘95, Eurovolley ‘96, the Centennial FIVB World
Congress, the World Basket Congress, WorldBasket ’98, Euroleague
Final Four 2000, and the Athens Grand Prix Tsiklitiria 2000,
2001 & 2002.
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The Galanis Sports Data company will
offer a wide variety of Information Services for the duration of the
2003 European Weightlifting Championships. The services are geared to
organisers, participants, press and spectators of the event, as well as
fans worldwide following the competition on TV or through the Internet.
Following is a brief breakdown of the services offered:
- 2003 European Weightlifting
Champs Website
This website brings
together in one place, accessible worldwide through the internet, all
information concerning the 2003 European Weightlifting Championships.
It included real-time, online results as the competition unfolded,
breaking news reports and press releases, as well as galleries with
still image and video highlights of the Championships. Also included
are background information on the competition and a guide for travellers to Loutraki, all conveniently brought together in one
location. The website was updated every few minutes to incorporate
all the latest developments in Loutraki.
WEBSITE STATISTICS
- Closed Circuit TV network
 A
CCTV network with ten channels will be available on 40 monitors
throughout the competition hall, including the organisers' and
athletes areas, Press Centre & Press Stands. Click on thumbnail,
left, for a higher
resolution image of the layout of the Closed Circuit Television
Network, which provided users with access to the international TV
feed, the host TV broadcaster (ET-1) picture, Eurosport English,
Eurosport German, two on-platform cameras, results service, plus the
competition website.
- Results Printout Service
In cooperation with the
organisers and the official International Weightlifting Federation
software, a full printout service for results will be made available
for the duration of the competition. The printouts are distributed
to participating delegations and accredited press.
- Intranet
 An Intranet
incorporating the Internet version of this website will be set up
throughout the competition hall, facilitating organisers and press,
who will be able to retrieve all information from one convenient
location. The Intranet is available on a network of 25 PCs,
hooked up to networked printers in the organisers' areas, the Press
Centre and the Press Stands. Click on thumbnail, left, for higher resolution
image of the Intranet Layout.
- TV Graphics
 Galanis Sports Data will
link up with the Hellenic Radio & Television, the host TV
broadcasters, to provide a TV graphics service for viewers
domestically and worldwide. A Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of the
TV Graphics may be downloaded from this website by clicking
here
(download size 1.6 MB).
- Graphics Design & Technical Support
 Galanis
Sports Data staff will be on hand throughout the duration of the
competition to provide technical support for all Information
Technology related matters to organisers and accredited press. Galanis
Sports data has also assisted the organisers in numerous graphics
design projects, such as the production of the panels on the weighlifting podium
and the Press Conference room. Click on the image, left, of the
competition podium panel, to
view in higher resolution, 600x220 pixels.
- Production of CD-ROMs
 Galanis Sports Data
has produced a two-language (Greek & English) multimedia CD-ROM, which
presents the history, achievements and 2004 Olympic aspirations of
Greek weightlifting. The CD traces the origins of the sport from
antiquity through to the 20th Century and highlights the achievements
of Greek weightlifters through the ages. A special section is given
over to Greece's modern-day weightlifting stars and includes video
clips of them in action. An interactive database holds information of
records and medals of Greek and foreign athletes in all categories,
updated until the beginning of the 2003 European Championships. This
CD was an innovative idea of the president of the Hellenic
Weightlifting Federation, Yannis Sgouros, and was produced with the
assistance of the Press Office of the HWF.
In addition, Galanis Sports Data will produce a post-competition
CD-ROM, following the completion of the 2003 European Championships.
This will include all results, statistics, press releases, day-by-day
reports, plus video highlights and a detailed photo gallery. After
viewing the CD, anyone who had missed the European Championships, will
feel that he was present at this competition.
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