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With their selection confirmed we hear from Sqn Ldr Nick Davies and Fg Off Michael Masters on their…
Bid for Olympic Glory Sqn Ldr Nick Davies I 10 Envoy Summer 2012
f you’d have told me in 2005, the year I took up triathlon, that I would be overtaking the reigning World No 1 at a
World Championship Race and be a contender for the Olympic team, I would have thought you’d gone bananas. But here I (Davies, GB) was at Hyde Park in early August, burning up Javier Gomez (Spain) with my prospects for an Olympic slot looking pretty good.
All true…though maybe slightly out of context. Whilst Javier is an elite triathlete (year of birth 1983) and was just entering the cycle course on his £several-thousand bike for a practise session, I (in my O-Level year when Mr Gomez was born) was pedalling like mad on my £hire-mountain-bike to check that the course was correctly laid out, that all the marshals had been fed and watered and were ready for the start of the elite women’s
race. A place on the team was indeed at stake, but on the 2012 Games Organising Team for the Triathlon to help organise and deliver the men’s and women’s races.
In February 2011 the British Triathlon Federation advertised for volunteers to help at the Olympics and while I was looking at the job details I noticed that some temporary jobs were available – closing date, that day. I hastily knocked together a CV and applied for the three Run Course and Bike Course managers’ posts online. Although I’d been Race Director for RAF Triathlon for 3 years, I had little experience of organising major commercial events so thought my chances were slim – if nothing else, the interview experience would be worth having when the spectre of redundancy was hovering around the corner.
Following my selection for interview at Canary Wharf, my wife thought it may be
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