Salt Lake 2002 Retrospective

Calum Clark, Chief Operating Officer, Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation and former Salt Lake 2002 Event Services Manager, joins the Salt Lake 2002 Retrospective podcast and remembers working Snowbasin under Adam Gray, DEPAT and the one question you should never ask (recorded 22 March 2021).

Show Notes

Calum Clark, Chief Operating Officer, Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation and former Salt Lake 2002 Event Services Manager, joins the Salt Lake 2002 Retrospective podcast and remembers working Snowbasin under Adam Gray, DEPAT and the one question you should never ask (recorded 22 March 2021). 

If you worked on the Games as a staff member, contractor or volunteer and want to share your story please email cnapier@gpfour.com.

Show Notes:

WARM UP
00:26 - Welcome Calum!
03:53 - UOLF venues open

PRELIMS
05:54 - Marooned on an island
09:48 - A Qwest story

QUARTERFINALS
11:20 - From Sydney to Salt Lake
16:05 - Settling in with first class professionals

SEMIFINALS
19:54 - The Snowbasin assignment
23:27 - Doing things differently

FINALS
27:06 - 9/11 changed the game
30:50 - Working with the Secret Service

MIXED ZONE
35:38 - The Event Services workforce
38:00 - "It was a pleasure"

PODIUM
41:02 - "A washing machine of activity"
45:56 - The Olympic Trials

COOL DOWN
49:15 - Advice and wrap-up

What is Salt Lake 2002 Retrospective?

Hosted by Christian Napier, Salt Lake 2002 Retrospective gives listeners a "back of house" or behind the scenes look into the planning and delivery of the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter and Paralympic Winter Games, through interviews with the very people who organized them.