Sports experience


		Experience that makes a difference



Translating Olympic or sports-related documents is not easy. Allow me to quote SLOC's final report: "With 15 sports and 78 events, the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games represented a major challenge to professional translators. In addition to the large number of different sports – each a different topic in itself – the texts to be translated ranged from legal to medical to radio frequency to security to pharmaceutical, and many more different subjects. It is commonly accepted that it takes a minimum of five years to make a professional translator. It takes another 5+ years to make a competent Olympic translator. This additional time is necessary to acquire the various vocabularies, lingoes, and especially the knowledge and concepts without which one cannot translate correctly." I know from experience that it is of the utmost importance that your translated documents be flawless. Now flawlessness will only be achieved if it is done by the most qualified and experienced olympic translator. In total, the Olympic Games program includes 35 sports and nearly 400 events! There is no need, and no time, to reinvent the wheel when experienced help is readily available!

	INTERPRETING Barcelona - 1992 Olympic Games Montpellier - 1993 Mediterranean Games Gibraltar - 1994 FIBA’s European conference Biarritz - 1995, 40th permanent conference of FIBA Monaco - 1995, Conference of Association of Summer Olympic International Federations Paris - 1998, FIFA World Cup Marseilles - 1998, FIFA World Cup Salt Lake City - 2001, IOC Press Commission Salt Lake City - 2001, Chef de Mission Seminar Las Vegas - 2002, Nike Super Show 2002 Los Angeles - 2003, 3rd FIFA Women’s football Symposium Athens - 2004 Olympic Games France - 2005 Tour de France Hong Kong - 2006, FIBA Central Board meeting Tokyo - 2006, FIBA World Congress France - 2006 Tour de France Sochi - 2007, IOC’s Evaluation Commission visit San Francisco - 2007, Annual International Convention of International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association France - 2007 Tour de France Portland - Nike’s 2007 Hood to Coast runners’ summit Chicago - 2007, AIBA Executive Committee meeting & Extraordinary Congress Chicago - 2007, FIBA Centra Board Meeting San Diego - 2008, Annual International Convention of International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association Beijing - 2008, IOC’s coordination commission meeting France - 2008 Tour de France Vancouver - 2010 IOC/VANOC/chefs de mission meetings Shenzhen - 2010 FISU Executive Committee Meeting Shenzhen - 2011 Head of delegations meeting Shenzhen - 2011, 26th Universiade Innsbruck - 2011, Youth Olympic Games, Chef de Mission Seminar Beijing - 2011, 14th World Conference on Sport for All Beijing - 2011, Meeting of IOC Sport for All Commission Nanjing - 2011, 2nd Meeting of the IOC Coordination Commission Innsbruck - 2012, 1st winter Youth Olympic Games Chengdu – 2012, General assembly of the Badminton World Federation London - 2012 Olympic Games TRANSLATION (in house) Atlanta - 1996 Olympic Games - Senior Translator and Terminologist Sydney - 2000 Olympic Games - Senior Translator (position turned down eventually) Salt Lake City - 2002 Olympic Games - Translation Manager Beijing - 2008 Olympic Games - French Translation Manager Vancouver - 2010 Olympic Games - NOC Services translation and interpretation specialist TRANSLATION (free lance) Salzburg - 2002/2003, Salzburg’s Olympic bid book for the 2010 Winter Games New York - 2004/2005, NYC’s Olympic bid book for the 2012 Summer Games and website Turin - 2003/2006, major documents intended for the IOC (Chef de Mission manual, etc..) Lausanne - 2005, part of the IOC’s Winter Games website Alma Ata - 2005, documents for Olympic bid (2010 Winter Games) Geneva - 2006, FIBA’s General Statutes and other documents Lausanne - 2006, 3 IOC Technical Manuals (on Planning, Coordination, and Management of Olympic Games, on Medical Services, on Olympic Village Sochi - 2006/2007, Sochi’s Olympic bid book for the 2014 Winter Games Geneva - 2007, FIBA’s Internal Regulations Evian - 2007, Evian Masters 2007 Book Lausanne - 2007, IOC Games Management Handbook, IOC Medical Commission Position Stand on the Female Athlete Triad Guatemala City - 2007, Sochi’s bid during 119th IOC session Moscow - 2007, Moscow’s bid for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games Beijing - 2007, consultant/trainer with the Beijing Olympic Committee for the Olympic Games Lausanne - 2007, IOC Technical Manual on NOC Services Switzerland - 2008, documents for UEFA Euro2008 Doha - 2008, application file and website Chicago - 2008, application file Vancouver -2008, VANOC Chef de Mission dossier, and subsequent NOC/NPC documents Chicago - 2008, Chicago’s Olympic bid book for the 2016 Summer Games, and subsequent documents and brochures Far Hills - 2009, Golf and the Olympic Games Guadalajara - 2009, Guadalajara’s bid for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games Moscow - 2009, Russia’s bid for the the 2018/2022 Football World Cups Doha - 2009, Qatar’s bid for the 2022 Football World Cup Munich - 2010, applicant city book Alexandria - 2010, 2017 Mediterranean Games bid book Munich - 2011, Munich’s Olympic bid book for the 2018 Winter Games, and subsequent documents and brochures PyeongChang - 2011, PyeongChang’s Olympic bid book for the 2018 Winter Games, subsequent documents and brochures Rome - 2012, application file PyeongChang – 2012, official website http://211.192.116.135:6030/horizon/french/index.asp