Recently, the closing remarks at a LOCOG staff briefing made by Sandy Holloway, who was the CEO of the Sydney 2000 Organising Committee (aka SOCOG), have been invading my head. I also noticed, when searching for this on t’Internet, that the remarks were published on a poster which appeared in the SOCOG offices. Bref, we should expect that the lifecycle of LOCOG will be characterised by the following phases:
- Euphoria
- Disenchantment
- Search for the guilty
- Persecution of the innocent
- Successful completion – and finally…
- Glorification of the uninvolved
I’m still waiting for 2 :), although some would say the VAT story (a non-story if ever there was one) is an indication of things to come. We shall see.