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Rapid Response: Overcoming institutional hurdles, w/ U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland

Masters of Scale

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The Olympic Games Are Like a Start Up

Each olympic games is like its own start up, that you're starting from scratch each time. 75% of our team tend to be first timers and one timers. The vast majority of athletes only ever compete in a single olympic or parolympic games. And so it's a brand new city every time. It's a new operating organization that's putting on the games every time. There are everything from very logical protocos and processes in place, down to crazy superstitions that you just got to do cause it's worked for us in the past,. So we'll keep doing it.

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