TOP TEAM
GLASGOW 2014
With less than nine months to go until the opening ceremony, the preparations for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games have reached the home straight. We speak to members of the top team in charge of organising the Games as
well as the team leaders responsible for the two most ambitious projects – the 35-hectare athletes’ village and the conversion of Hampden Park from a football stadium to a world-class athletics venue for the Games.
DAVID GREVEMBERG
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Could you describe your personal journey in sport so far? I grew up in inner city New Orleans, in a neighbourhood which was 85 per cent African American. The city is completely sports mad and one of the things that was obvious to me from a young age was the power that sport has in bringing people together. Sport was – and still is – a catalyst for empowerment and social change in the city in so many different ways. The combination of me being an
international level athlete (freestyle wrestling) and my mother being a social worker and very much involved in civil rights and social justice issues gave me a great insight to it all. I think that is reflected in the way I practice and approach sport today. For me, sport has always been about building friendships. I very much identify with the ideology of “respect everyone, fear no one”.
Chris Hoy retired in April 2013, but remains an ambassador for Glasgow 2014 32 Read Sports Management online
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What was your first job in sport? After a career-ending knee injury in 1994, I was given the opportunity to work with the US Olympic committee in the grants and planning department. I learned about high performance sports planning and was later given the opportunity to develop the high performance plan for the US Paralympic team in the run up to the 1996 Atlanta
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