Goulding toasts Olympic success

Scott Goulding

Scott Goulding has been toasting his own Olympic success. The former Sutherland High School pupil has  been selected to be an Olympic Gamesmaker. His role will be within Event Services based at the Olympic Stadium, which will be hosting the athletics and opening/closing ceremonies.

He passed a very stringent selection process, which saw 250,000 initially apply for the the 70,000 volunteer roles.

The Olympic Games volunteers are named 'Gamesmakers', and they will be working for 10 days in a row, have to attend 15 hours of training over 3 days and are dviided into two groups:

1. “Generalists” – these break down into 30 groups of volunteers, e.g." Transport”, “Village Management” etc.

2. “Specialists” – require sports or medical expertise. National Governing Bodies of UK sports will have already contacted many people who are suitable for this role.

Lifelong Rochdale AFC supporter and former Dale Supporters Trust chairman, Scott works as a Revenue Controller for a law firm in Manchester and is very excited indeed about his role at the summer games, he said: "I am proud and honoured to representing the town of Rochdale at probably the biggest sporting event ever held in this country".

He travels down to the capital for role/venue training and uniform accreditation in May.

The London 2012 Olympic Games are now less 100 days away. It is estimated that over 11 million people will converge on the capital during the Games from 27 July till 12 August. The Games will consist of 26 sports spread across 37 competition venues across the country, of which 27 are in London and 1 in Manchester (football - hosted at Old Trafford).