London 2012 blog

I have just spent two days in beautiful Riga, on the west coast of Latvia.

I was attending and presenting at the European National Olympic Committees (NOC) Seminar for Secretary Generals and ‘Chef de Missions’ (essentially the Team leaders). It’s always a good meeting for me, with many familiar faces and old friends from past Olympic and Olympic Winter Games.

Everyone accepts much of the best work is done in the bar and increasingly the ‘jeans’ outnumber the ‘suits’ – my kind of meeting!

This forum is key for all OCOGs (Organising Committees) to communicate and disseminate key logistical and operational info to the team leaders of all the European Olympic teams.

BOCOG – the Beijing 2008 organisers - came with a delegation of six, VANOC (Vancouver) – two and London – just me!

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