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Article: Feature: Passing torch, passing volunteerism
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- July 31, 2008
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Feature: Passing torch, passing volunteerism
BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhua)-- David Brettel, director of the
volunteer program of the Sydney Organizing Committee for Olympic
Games (SOCOG), is surprised to find that the seminal program in
Sydney has grown into a thriving tree in Beijing.
The Australian, who is an Olympic consultant, developed and
implemented staffing policies, procedures and workforce conditions
from 1996 to 2000. He has been invited by the Beijing Organizing
Committee for Olympic Games (BOCOG) to advise on volunteers.
Being a lover of tennis and cricket, Brettell decided to
contribute to the Olympics after he went to see the Munich Olympics
in 1972. To date, he has been to the ...
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