Results management

Results management was one of the main tasks of the technology division. The company EDS was commissioned to develop a specific software program for it. The Organising Committee for the Barcelona’’92 Olympic Games (COOB’’92) wanted to use a single centralised database for its operations. It also wanted all the information on the Olympic Family (the AMIC system) to be included in that database; competition registrations were therefore a kind of intermediate stage between the accreditations program and the results management program.

For the results management aspect, the SIR (Results Information System) project was developed and eventually led to the “Document” software program. “Document” was rolled out via a series of touch-screen terminals that allowed users to access and print out the results. The application was created to centralise the daily data of every competition and to serve as the backbone of the SICO (radio and television Commentators Information System) so that journalists at the press centres could get hold of the results as quickly as possible.

To ensure it operated properly, specialist personnel was required. So people with the appropriate training were taken on specifically for the event to guarantee connections between the results control devices on the tracks, fields and pitches, and the information that appeared on the screens. A total of 1,097 workers was allocated to this operation, which used 2,000 PCs, 605 “Document” terminals and 155 “Document” servers, and provided more than 15 million photocopies of competition results.