Comments on: Do you value the Olympic Games? How can the Olympic Games be designed better? http://www.fergusbisset.com/blog/2010/04/01/do-you-value-the-olympic-games-how-can-the-olympic-games-be-designed-better/ Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:47:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: georgejulian http://www.fergusbisset.com/blog/2010/04/01/do-you-value-the-olympic-games-how-can-the-olympic-games-be-designed-better/comment-page-1/#comment-195 georgejulian Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:35:46 +0000 http://www.fergusbisset.com/blog/2010/04/01/do-you-value-the-olympic-games-how-can-the-olympic-games-be-designed-better/#comment-195 For me the Olympics come and go every few years, they don't really take up much head space, not really at the front of my mind anyhow...not until the media coverage kicks in.<br><br>Having said that, the values that you talk about - friendship, respect and excellence, are exactly those that I choose to live my own life by and are certainly the ones that I respect in others. I suspect that the challenge is in bringing the values to life and communicating them more blatantly as part of the Olympic story - then maybe it would take up more headspace and have more relevance. For me the Olympics come and go every few years, they don't really take up much head space, not really at the front of my mind anyhow…not until the media coverage kicks in.

Having said that, the values that you talk about – friendship, respect and excellence, are exactly those that I choose to live my own life by and are certainly the ones that I respect in others. I suspect that the challenge is in bringing the values to life and communicating them more blatantly as part of the Olympic story – then maybe it would take up more headspace and have more relevance.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.fergusbisset.com/blog/2010/04/01/do-you-value-the-olympic-games-how-can-the-olympic-games-be-designed-better/comment-page-1/#comment-274 Anonymous Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:26:00 +0000 http://www.fergusbisset.com/blog/2010/04/01/do-you-value-the-olympic-games-how-can-the-olympic-games-be-designed-better/#comment-274 For me the Olympics come and go every few years, they don't really take up much head space, not really at the front of my mind anyhow...not until the media coverage kicks in. Having said that, the values that you talk about - friendship, respect and excellence, are exactly those that I choose to live my own life by and are certainly the ones that I respect in others. I suspect that the challenge is in bringing the values to life and communicating them more blatantly as part of the Olympic story - then maybe it would take up more headspace and have more relevance. For me the Olympics come and go every few years, they don’t really take up much head space, not really at the front of my mind anyhow…not until the media coverage kicks in.

Having said that, the values that you talk about – friendship, respect and excellence, are exactly those that I choose to live my own life by and are certainly the ones that I respect in others. I suspect that the challenge is in bringing the values to life and communicating them more blatantly as part of the Olympic story – then maybe it would take up more headspace and have more relevance.

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