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After London was announced as the Olympics host city, Tanya Cavanah became the third recruit for the London Olympics and Paralympic Organising Committee (Locog) after being selected ahead of 300 other applicants in two legs of interviews held in late 2005.
Back then, the then 28-year-old’s sports management experience was a sports administration diploma and a seven-year working stint in British football and tennis.
“I worked for the Football Foundation as a Capital Grants administrator and then led the development of the largest sports database in the United Kingdom [UK] at that time. This is the register of English football facilities in the UK,” said Cavanah.
With the fans spoiling themselves in the festivities, thrills and spills that come with the Olympics, the hard work and strenuous effort invested in the staging of an event of such magnitude often escapes everyone’s minds.
For six years and five months prior to the Olympics, Cavanah worked in different Locog departments, each assigned to perform a special role behind the scenes in arranging the global event which ran from July 27 to August 12.
“For all departments, Logistics in particular, our Games commenced way before the athletes arrived in order to get the venues ready for the athletes, media and spectators alike,” said the Harare born and bred Cavanah.
“The last six months leading up to the Games were stressful and involved long hours and working over weekends to fine-tune operating plans. As we approached the last couple of months, people really pulled and worked together to get things done.”
Cavanah assumed another duty of managing the programme of training venues for all disciplines by identifying potential training venues that meet international federations’ requirements, as well as determining the works required to upgrade them to Olympics and Paralympics standards.
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