London 2012 Olympics: do you have what it takes to be a volunteer for the Games?
Not that watching the Olympics is something volunteers can necessarily count on being able to do. A job as an Olympics volunteer is not merely a trackside ticket to the 100m final, or a licence to carry Andy Murray’s bags; more likely, it’ll be checking tickets at Greenwich Park, aiding spectators at Eton Dorney, greeting dignitaries at their hotels.
Olympic volunteers – or ‘Games Makers’, to use London 2012’s terminology – will fall into two broad categories: specialists offering things such as medical services and sporting assistance, and generalists – the vast army of volunteers assigned to direct spectators, man information points and help desks, stewarding and working in the uniform centre, and so on. The work is hard. The hours are long. If you’re not from London, you’ll need to arrange and fund your own accommodation. But if you ask any Games volunteer, it’s certainly worth it. The majority of volunteers will be based in and around the Games venues, but you could spend two weeks standing at the airport holding up a placard with a name on it.
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