Since the theme committees members are all extremely experienced in their respective fields, they are able to present a very interesting perspective on the work they were doing. I learned a lot about budgeting from the finance committee, for example. Since our bid director, Bob Stiles, was director of Olympic Stadium during the 1996 Olympics and has been involved with Sydney and the Los Angeles Olympics, I have learned a lot about the actual production of the Games themselves. He allowed me to take do a lot of the official scheduling for the sports and research information for a ticket revenue model. This journal is, hopefully, an insightful glimpse at just some of the hard work that goes into the bid for the largest and most profitable event in the world.
Most people think about the Olympics for about two weeks, every four years.