London 2012 blog

Amid the new brand launch and before the IOC's visit to London I attended the IOC OGKM (Olympic Games Knowledge Management) 'Arrivals and Departures' workshop in Beijing.

The IOC invited LOCOG and VANOC (Vancouver 2010 Organising Committee) to join some 50 BOCOG staff at the workshop.

A&D will be particularly challenging for our Games because we designated five official “ports of arrival” (a very technical term in IOC speak) in our bid – Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and City Airports, together with Eurostar. Beijing, Vancouver, Turin and Athens will be or were predominantly single airport Games. I came away feeling better equipped to help plan our way through our more complex proposals.

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