Congratulations to Andrew Allan, Ted Savage, and Gary Jones for pulling off a flawless on-hill technical production at the mens Olympic Downhill. For those of you who don't know the situation out there, Ted, Andrew, and Gary are handling all the wiring and on-hill timing hardware at Snowbasin. Seiko showed up at Snowbasin with FORTY TWO alleged "timing engineers". As to the competency of the Seiko timing engineers, well, I think the fact that Seiko needs forty two of them to execute a ski race says it all. But the biggest problem is that not one of the highly trained Seiko technicians can ski well enough to make it down the ultra-gnarly Grizzly without winding up in the hospital.

Andrew, who had originally been hired by SLOC to handle all the alpine racing wiring at Snowbasin and Deer Valley, was tasked by SLOC to basically take over the on-hill duties, since Seiko wasn't up to it. Ted is serving in an executive consulting position with SLOC, however, the urgency of the situation prompted him to get
up on the hill with Andrew and Gary.

Ted and Andy are both former members, along with Fred Patton, Brian Cooper, and myself, of the now-defunct TAG Heuer World Cup Equipe de
Chronometrage. Gary is a powder-8's instructor and co-director of the Snowbasin Timing Club.

Ted and Andrew are both from Montreal. Gary is from Layton, Utah.


originally posted 11 Feb 2002 by James Broder

Yes, but how much money did Ted, Andrew and Gary contribute? As much as SEIKO did? Salt Lake was the best Winter Olympics ever and due much to the efforts of our Japanese friends, please don't denigrate to contibution of SEIKO. There is a company policy that forbids SEIKO personnel skiing other than the necessary to mount equipment whilst working.

Andrew in particular and Gary too put in a great effort and that was very much appreciated.

Roger:

Here in the United States, where our economy is currently experiencing the ill-effects of conflict of interest, it is customary to state one's affiliation when talking about one's own employer.

James Broder
Broder's Skunkware Scoring & Timing Software
http://www.skunkware.tv

Roger:

Given that one of the primary stated objectives of any Olympics is to benefit not only Sport but the Local Economy, I'll have you know that I contributed well over $475 to the Shooting Star bar in nearby Huntsville, enough in fact to finally commission the re-stuffing of The World's Biggest Dog still nailed to the west wall. I have it on good authority that this contribution far exceeds anything Seiko made in the name of Local Contributions.

Carry on.

Andrew

Andrew Allan
Alpha Sports Technologies
Sports Technology Specialists
www.alphasports.tv