{"id":593,"date":"2012-08-13T09:26:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T09:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=593"},"modified":"2016-03-10T14:05:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:05:27","slug":"school-of-tourisms-dr-debbie-sadds-experience-of-being-a-london-2012-olympic-volunteer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2012\/08\/13\/school-of-tourisms-dr-debbie-sadds-experience-of-being-a-london-2012-olympic-volunteer\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Tourism\u2019s Dr. Debbie Sadd\u2019s experience of being a London 2012 Olympic Volunteer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Debbie Sadd, from School of Tourism, had the fantastic opportunity to\u00a0work as a volunteer with the world\u2019s photographers and journalists covering the basketball at the London Olympic Games.\u00a0Her duties varied\u00a0from day to day but\u00a0involved sitting court side with the photographers making sure they don\u2019t stray from their allotted areas to working \u2018backstage\u2019 ensuring all the required technical material is available for them to transmit their stories\/photos back to their respective editors. Some days the sports specialists\u00a0rang through whilst the transmissions\u00a0were live on US television asking for facts and figures, which have to be available immediately for broadcast in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Debbie\u2019s group\u00a0had\u00a0their own system called info+ which contained all the necessary\u00a0information and\u00a0they\u00a0were required\u00a0to be proficient in its use pretty quickly.<\/p>\n<p>In Debbie\u2019s own words, the experience was \u201cquite stressful and tiring but gosh have I seen some exciting games and met some wonderful people and I even got to see my hero Kobe Bryant!\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2012\/08\/debbie2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-594\" src=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2012\/08\/debbie2-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Debbie Sadd, from School of Tourism, had the fantastic opportunity to\u00a0work as a volunteer with the world\u2019s photographers and journalists covering the basketball at the London Olympic Games.\u00a0Her duties varied\u00a0from day to day but\u00a0involved sitting court side with the photographers making sure they don\u2019t stray from their allotted areas to working \u2018backstage\u2019 ensuring all&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2012\/08\/13\/school-of-tourisms-dr-debbie-sadds-experience-of-being-a-london-2012-olympic-volunteer\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about School of Tourism\u2019s Dr. Debbie Sadd\u2019s experience of being a London 2012 Olympic Volunteer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[21,115,135,151],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-basketball","tag-olympics-2012","tag-school-of-tourism","tag-volunteer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}