Woodward Joins Vancouver GB Specialists
Sir Clive Woodward has become the latest member of Team GB’s chef de mission Andy Hunt’s team for Vancouver 2010 in a restructured leadership group that aims to improve Britain’s winter Olympic performance.
Woodward joins as one of four specialist senior managers of the British Olympic Association’s leadership team specifically for the upcoming Winter Games.
He will back Hunt in Canada as deputy chef de mission, focusing on performance. He joins Mark England, who will oversee operations, Hugh Chamber, director of marketing and partnerships, and Mike Hay, director of preparation camp.
Woodward, who was behind the England victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup, is also the BOA’s director of elite performance and played a role in GB’s record-breaking performance in Beijing.
At the last Winter Games, at Turin in 2006, Team GB won just one medal, in Shelley Rudman’s silver in the skeleton.
The BOA has claimed that this new chef de mission structure – a separation of the roles – will provide a higher level of support for British athletes, both before and during the Games.
