Selling Olympic Opportunities to Prince George

Thursday, December 06, 2007 03:49 PM

Prince George, B.C. - Craig Phillips, Secretary General of the Australian Olympic Committee flew in from Australia this morning to present at the RBC 2010 Legacies Now Speaker Series in Prince George. Phillips discussed how communities and businesses can capitalize on the economic and social opportunities leading up to the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

As athletes will arrive early in Canada to adjust to the climate they will be looking to escape the hype in Vancouver and train in communities that will provide:

Quality training venues
Quality accommodation fitting their needs (College dormitories to hotels)
Access to facility services (swimming pools, gyms, sports medicine)
Be within a two hour flight from Vancouver or a few hour drive

Phillips stressed the importance to businesses of identifying what services they can offer before, during and after the Olympic Games as the teams will need a variety of services ranging from accommodations, meals, medical, interpreters and telecommunications. Businesses can go to www.2010commercecentre.com to learn more about various opportunities.

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Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 03:49 PM in News by Peter Ewart & Dawn Hemingway

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Comments

Posted by: slider71 on December 6 2007 5:12 PM

Perhaps athletes could train here for next years games in China...similar air quality.

Posted by: RRrabbitt on December 7 2007 6:47 AM

Snow shovelling should be a winter event... great training opportunities here.

The other great training could be in whining and bitching about the snow... for those who don't wanna shovel !!

Goodtimes...!

Posted by: Bridge on December 7 2007 9:10 AM

Another expert to milk the taxpayer. Gerry has given up so we bring in another clone.

Cheers

Posted by: Harbinger on December 7 2007 12:29 PM

Be within a two hour flight from Vancouver or a few hour drive? Well folks, it 's been my experience that it only takes 55 minutes to fly from here to there, airport to airport on a good day. Me? It takes 10 to 12 hours to drive from the Lower Mainland to home here in P.G. That includes feeding my addictions at the many Timmie's en route. So two hours flying just doesn't correlate with a "few hours drive". Remembering a couple is two and a few is between three and fifteen.

Posted by: BCRacer on December 7 2007 1:40 PM

It is only a few hours drive compared to the few days it would take to walk it.

I really would love to see the athletes here training...but I fear that isn't ever going to happen.

Another false start and too people believing it.

I hope someone lets them down gently.

Posted by: acrider54 on December 8 2007 6:56 AM

Nothing is going to happen but huge debt!

Posted by: thereasonableman on December 8 2007 3:14 PM

I think it's funny that they expect all these visitors to go touring around BC after the Olympics, in winter conditions, with the poor road maintenance we have.