Information
System:
 Galanis
Sports Data 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 22 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” (since 1998), the 47th Acropolis Rally (2000)
and the 2003 World Weightlifting Championships in
Vancouver, Canada. 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 all the Athens Grand
Prix Tsiklitiria since 1998.
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The Galanis Sports Data
company will offer a wide variety of Information
Services for the duration of the 2008 Tsiklitiria.
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:
- 2008
Tsiklitiria Website
This website
brings together in one place, accessible worldwide through
the internet, all information concerning the 2008
Tsiklitiria. It includes
real-time, online results as the competition unfolds,
breaking news reports and press releases, as well as
galleries with still image and video highlights of the
competition. Also included are
background information on the event
and a guide for travellers to Athens,
all conveniently brought together in one location. The
website will be updated every few
minutes to incorporate all the latest developments in
Athens.
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Closed Circuit TV network
A CCTV network
with ten channels will be available on 40 monitors
throughout the stadium, including
the organisers' and athletes areas, Press Centre & Press
Stands.
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Results Printout Service
A full printout service for
results will be made available by Galanis
Sports Data for the duration of the competition. The
printouts will be distributed to
the accredited press.
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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.
- TV
Graphics
Galanis Sports
Data will link up with Antenna TV,
the host TV broadcasters, to provide a TV graphics service
for viewers domestically and worldwide.
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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.
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Accreditation
Galanis Sports Data
will provide the accreditation service of the 2008 Tsiklitiria, for over 1,000 athletes, organisers, press,
VIPs, staff, etc.
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Production of CD-ROMs
Results
will be made available on CD, together with an off-line
version of this website, plus photos and video clips.
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