SOCOG plans to sell Olympic blueprint
Posted: Wednesday March 03, 1999 01:03 PM
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Sydney Olympic organizers may sell
information about how to host a games to other cities considering
bidding for major events.
SOCOG chief executive officer Sandy Hollway said SOCOG was
collating a blueprint of "intellectual property" to sell to other
countries.
Hollway said that when SOCOG began planning for the 2000
Olympics it had no guide on how to run the games, despite input
from the organizing committees of the Atlanta and Barcelona
Olympics and the IOC.
"But we have developed systematic, documented information that
we wish to make available," Hollway said. "If I was a private
consultant I would be charging a fortune for this. I do not wish to
charge cities a fortune but I'm a very poor man and I would like
some [recompense] for this intellectual property."
He said if a city purchased the SOCOG blueprint, the information
would be followed up with seminars and contacts with
representatives from related government agencies.
Sydney Lord Mayor Frank Sartor said a substantial amount of work
had been put in to preparing the blueprint for major events, work
which would potentially save future organizers about 12 months of
effort.
SOCOG is more than $124 million short of its marketing target
for the games.
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