{"id":1692,"date":"2013-09-06T09:43:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T14:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2013-09-06T09:43:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T14:43:29","slug":"coba-study-abroad-oxford-keeps-the-olympic-games-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/2013\/09\/06\/coba-study-abroad-oxford-keeps-the-olympic-games-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"COBA Study Abroad Oxford Keeps the Olympic Games Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

You would think London might be a little dull after the lights have\u00a0shut off, people have gone home,\u00a0and the 2012 Olympic games have\u00a0finished. Well, think again! Summer 2013 was full of excitement for COBA\u00a0in England.\u00a0During June, 31 students traveled\u00a0to Oxford, England to study abroad with COBA. Eleven of these students had the opportunity to tour\u00a0the London Olympic Park and\u00a0work hand in hand with some of the top overseers\u00a0of the London Olympic games, including the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games,\u00a0 the London Legacy Development Corporation, the head of Olympic protest groups, the London School of Economics,\u00a0 architects and urban planning consultants, and a world champion athlete.<\/p>\n

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Accompanied by\u00a0Dr. Monty Lynn, students worked on a project to present to Matt Wood, COBA alum and Chairman and CEO of Dallas 2024. The goal of the project was to learn from the organizers of the 2012 London games and apply those principles to the Dallas 2024 Olympic bid as Dallas\u00a0is one of the\u00a0final 10 cities vying for the\u00a02024 Olympic games. Dr. Lynn explained how\u00a0no one realizes how much work, time, resources,\u00a0and money goes into preparing for the Olympic games. Dr. Lynn stated, “Each Game is unique.\u00a0Unlike many other Olympic games, London put thought into what would become of the facilities after the games.” Cities like Athens and even Beijing now have billions of dollars worth of\u00a0abandoned buildings around the city. London wanted a different vision, a vision that would\u00a0impact east London and truly make the summer 2012 games one to remember.<\/p>\n

London is currently\u00a0in the process of transforming the Olympic park into\u00a0Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park,\u00a0a place that will connect local communities, create new business opportunities and developments, and provide new and modern\u00a0living options in the park.\u00a0The London planners were proactive in preparing for the future and planning for future\u00a0economic growth in a socially deprived\u00a0area of the city. After speaking with the different\u00a0London games authorities, the COBA\u00a0project team shared these principles with Dallas 2024.<\/p>\n

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The team included Hannah Bruce, Mary Beth Carter, Katy Doughty, Zach Guerra, Whitney Herrington, Emily Hill, Teddie Johnson, Cassie Powers, Evan Webb, Megan Wixon, and Matt Sanderson. Along with Dr. Monty Lynn, the team presented their project to Matt Wood and the Dallas 2024 board on Friday, August 6 in Dallas. COBA students are contributing to one of the\u00a0most uniting and compelling\u00a0events in the entire\u00a0world, passing on\u00a0the torch of excellence. We’re excited about what the future holds!<\/p>\n

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You would think London might be a little dull after the lights have\u00a0shut off, people have gone home,\u00a0and the 2012 Olympic games have\u00a0finished. Well, think again! Summer 2013 was full of excitement for COBA\u00a0in England.\u00a0During June, 31 students traveled\u00a0to Oxford, England to study abroad with COBA. Eleven of these students had the opportunity to tour\u00a0the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2838,2801,2750,467,496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coba-alumni","category-coba-events","category-current-students","category-research","category-study-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}