Old Farnhamians' Association
2006 Farnham
Lecture
Winning the 2012 Olympic Games for
by
Tuesday, 17 October,
2006
The scale of the
Olympic Games and the organization required to stage that event almost defy human
imagination. There are 10’000 athletes converging on the chosen city to
participate in 26 sports, but that is to understate the scale. The supporting
staff and services come to a massive multiple of those numbers – around 260’000
people is the total. Despite this, cities around the world compete intensely to
obtain the prize of staging the games.
Simon Clegg, who lives
in Farnham, has been the Chief Executive of the British Olympic Committee since
1997. Prior to that he had managed the British team in all the Olympic Games
since 1988. His Farnham Lecture, delivered at
His varied experiences
in the fight to secure the games was interspersed with atmospheric film clips
made as part of the promotion of both the bid and the games themselves. The
audience was quite captivated by the presentation and there were many questions
at the end of the lecture.
This was yet another
highly successful Farnham Lecture presented by the 400 Trust.
John
McLaughlin, Maurice Sturt, Sally Francis, Cyril Trust, Simon Clegg CBE and John
Crotty