Nearing the end of four quite intense days in Vancouver. TOROC have provided a huge amount of data and the job of filtering relevant pieces for LOCOG is not easy. Why? Well, technology moves so fast that the lessons from 2006 may not have any real context in 2012. That said, some things stand out and are perhaps the perennial challenges in running successful sports events – seamless communicaiton up and down, teamwork, sticking to sound values (really sticking to them), total clarity on budgets, local initiative and devolved decision making. These are just as important to technology as to any other functional area in the organising of a Games.