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[gotosy]

London 2012 organizers to put Sochi volunteers through their own Olympics

The London 2012 organizing committee is coming to Russia to put Sochi volunteers through their own Olympics and select 100 candidates to take to Britain for next year's Summer Games.

A delegation headed by Andrew Newman, the head of the London 2012 volunteer scheme, will be in Sochi, host city of the 2014 Winter Games, from October 6-8, a Sochi 2014 spokesperson told RIA Novosti on Monday.

Three-hundred of Russia's best volunteers will be tested on basic skills such as English fluency, leadership, and understanding of the so-called Olympic values.

The top 100 volunteers will join the 70,000-strong force helping the athletes and visitors to the London Games next year, gaining expertise they are expected to transfer Sochi two years later.

The 200 volunteers not selected will receive training nonetheless.

A total of 26 volunteer centers across Russia will train 25,000 helpers to support the Sochi 2014 Games. A mass recruitment drive begins in February.

Volunteers will meet delegations at airports, work in hotels and media centers and assist athletes with their travel and possessions as well as helping coordinate anti-doping procedures.

http://en.ria.ru/spo.../167141584.html

[gotosy]

Sochi 2014 launches "VolunTour" advertising campaign


Before the start of the volunteer selection process to recruit 25,000 volunteers for the Games in Sochi, the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee has launched the "VolunTour" advertising and informational campaign. The plan is to attract up to 200,000 people to the vol.sochi2014.com website by the end of 2012. The campaign will be mainly online, with banners, planned viral projects, activity on social networking sites and other promotional tools. Outdoor advertising will also be used in 14 regions of the country; the adverts will be collages of "ideal" candidates for the Olympic and Paralympic volunteer teams with Olympic stadiums in the background. The campaign is aimed at people with a proactive attitude and first of all at young people who will be at least 18 by the time the Games open in Sochi.
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more at:
http://sochi2014.com...ive/news/44438/

[SkiFreak]

Interesting that Canadians are leading the pack:

Sochi 2014 Official Website: Canadians in the lead amongst those eager to become Sochi 2014 volunteers

[jawnbc]

The stoopid Sochi application doesn't specify you need to speak Russian...until you complete it and try to submit. There will be a lot of specialist Games-time volunteers without Russian--they'll be annoyed with the system.

[Gangwon]

jawnbc, on 11 March 2012 - 10:37 AM, said:

The stoopid Sochi application doesn't specify you need to speak Russian...until you complete it and try to submit. There will be a lot of specialist Games-time volunteers without Russian--they'll be annoyed with the system.

Do you really have to know Russian? I know it's in Sochi and all, but how do they expect to attract enthusiastic volunteers from abroad if they have to learn Russian? The burden should be on the volunteer coordinators/organizers to know English instead, and make just ONE of knowledge of English or Russian a requirement.