Innovations in Sport from the past Decade - Part II

Good afternoon Sport Matters,

Happy New Year and I hope that 2010 has started off well for you and yours.

On to part two of my innovations in Sport from the past decade, with the focus being on VANOC, The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. It was established on September 30, 2003. The Committee’s mandate is to support and promote the development of sport in Canada by planning, organizing, financing and staging the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

VANOC

How many other games organizing committees survive intact from start to finish? Simply put, it never happens, at least not until John Furlong came along and built a team and an organization to contest the notion that Games organizers are hired to be fired. Many highs and many lows later, the Games are on track, Vancouver-Whistler are transformed, and VANOC can make a credible claim to stimulating some big changes in how host organizers think about legacies now, partnerships, and execution.

All for now,

Ian