Many of you know that I have a part-time gig in my retirement years as a Doping Control Officer for the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sports. In this role, which I've been doing for 10 years now, I test high performance athletes across a wide spectrum of Olympic, Paralympic ,national, university, and professional sports. Most of the time this involves Canadian athletes but a few internationals get tested from time to time. It was in this role that I went to Whistler in 2010 for the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.
This past summer CCES asked me if I would be willing to go Rio de Janeiro in September 2016 for the Paralympic Games. It was an opportunity I could not refuse. So I leave on Sunday September 4 in the evening to fly to Toronto, then overnight to São Paulo, Brazil , then on to Rio arriving Monday afternoon. I return home post Games on September 20.
I expect to be staying in the Olympic Village and work at a variety of venues. Expectation and reality are often two different things so we'll see over the next two plus weeks what really happens. I hope there is a good wi-fi signal available to me and a sufficient variety of things to make this blog interesting. Again we'll see . I also hope to be able to add pictures so you'll get a sense of what it's like there. Rio of course is a beautiful location and I hope to be able to capture some of that beauty.
Between the time of posting this item and two hours later I received a notice that I'd be staying at the Atlantis Copacabana Hotel right down near the beach front. Already a change and I haven't even left home yet! The TripAdvisor reviews on the hotel seem good however.
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