The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) will hold a media briefing on Tuesday, March 3 detailing how the public can get involved as volunteer performers in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2009/02/c5036.html
The volunteer/performance crew for the 2010 ceremonies should be absolutely massive, much larger than Salt Lake and especially Torino.
In Beijing, there were something like 30,000 volunteer performers and backstage support volunteers for the opening/closing ceremonies. In Athens, there were 8,000 volunteer performers and 2,000 support volunteers. In Torino, there were a total of 6,300 volunteers and in Salt Lake, 4,800 performers and 2,300 support volunteers.
In Sydney, 12,000 performers and 5,000 backstage support volunteers.
I have heard that Vancouver 2010 will require 12,000 volunteers for the opening/closing ceremonies, which beats the numbers for the last two Winter Olympics by more than double and even the numbers for Athens. It would appear, assuming 12,000 is still the figure, that David Atkins is trying to pull off another Sydney for the Winter Games.
Kodii, you interested?
