Another business casual day started off hectic as our fearless leader Dr. Kim gave us the wrong wakeup time the night before and then at 6am in the morning she texted us saying we needed to be ready an hour earlier than what we were told! Somehow it was the one day we were all on time shockingly, but some of us did have to scarf down our breakfast to make it out on time. We took a long uphill walk to World Aquatics which is in this beautiful house which I thought was pretty cool. We had a discussion with Executive Director Brent Nowicki, Sport Director Pere Miro, and Senior Manager of Digital Content and Events Luca Fasani. We discussed various things such as the difference between sports in America and Europe, the workings of World Aquatics, and their upcoming championships in North America in a few months. Nowicki was also an upstate native which was fun to make that connection to all of us since he is from Buffalo, New York.
Our meeting with World Aquatics did run over from what we expected so we were running late to our next meeting with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) which was a far walk away. So, we hopped in some Ubers to make it to our next presentation. We arrived at CAS where we were greeted by William Sternheimer who is the Manager of Training and Education for CAS. He gave us a presentation on the history of CAS where he dived deeper into the beginning of why the sporting world needed CAS to determine rulings on sport related violations. We also learned about some of the most notable cases which varied in topics and learned about the two different types of cases which can be filed. After our presentation he showed us what a hearing room looked like which is basically a meeting room with many TVs so everyone can see if you’re online. Then he took us to a terrace which had a beautiful view of the city, Lake Geneva and the Alps.
Because we were running late in our meetings lunch was a very quick stop at the Coop store for grab and go lunch to eat on the run. For how cheap the food is it's pretty good quality coming from a grocery store as I had a pesto pasta salad and a spicy salmon onigiri. We hopped on the subway and ate our lunch before walking over near the Olympic Museum for our final stop of the day at the Olympic Study Center. We had 3 people speak to us in total about different sectors of the International Olympic Committee. We first spoke to Sinead Dowling on the Olympic Solidarity group which handles primarily the upholding of the Olympic Values and fund allocations for National Olympic Committees. Then Jocelin Sebastiani spoke to us about the processes of the Olympics regarding more event management and the host cities, while also touching on previous points on Olympic Solidarity. And then Diego Girod spoke to us about the archives and books that we have access to in the Olympic Study Center. He showed us some old artifacts from the first Paris Olympics and the smallest book in the Olympic collection.
Afterwards we accidentally left Luke and Rory at the subway station because they were too slow getting on the train. We went back to the hotel where we rested for a bit and then walked down to the beach to swim in Lake Geneva. The lake was pretty cold but we were able to have fun in the water and refresh ourselves. I then decided to do a solo dinner where I had a warm bowl of ramen after swimming in the cold lake before packing up my room for us to head to Greece!
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