Team GB And ParalympicsGB Athletes Find New Career Pathway At Centrica
The title of this post, is the same as that of this press release from Centrica.
This is the sub-heading.
Over the summer, billions of people from across the world tuned in to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games to get behind their nation’s most talented athletes, and Centrica has launched a new employment initiative to help sportspeople transition into a different career once they retire.
These first three paragraphs outline the scheme.
Elite sports professionals are highly skilled and have a lot to offer the world of work, although it can often be challenging for them to know where to start, especially when entering into a new sector.
To help adjust to life after sport, Centrica has created a new scheme – the Centrica Athletes Leadership Placement Programme – to find high performance athletes rewarding careers in the energy sector.
Made available to athletes thanks to Team GB and ParalympicsGB’s landmark five-year partnership with British Gas – a subsidiary of Centrica – the programme will give former sportspeople the chance to transfer their skills to new roles within the wider group.
The scheme appears to be similar to a successful scheme for armed forces personnel, outlined in this paragraph.
The scheme falls under the same umbrella as Centrica’s Armed Forces Pathway, which aims to hire at least 500 ex-forces leavers by 2026.
I wish Centrica and their new employees the best of luck.
But it looks to me, that it should succeed.
Murder Ball At The Paralympics
I went to the Paralympics yesterday, as a friend had two tickets for the wheelchair rugby. Murderball is the film that gives the nickname to the sport.
It was a good spectacle and Great Britain beat Belgium in the match we watched.
Pistorius Is A Bad Loser
Oscar Pistorius didn’t like losing as is reported here in the Guardian.
I suspect Usain Bolt doesn’t like losing either, as he did in Daegu. But let’s face it, it happens and when it happens you should lose with as much good grace as you can find.
Pistorius has lost a lot of respect by his actions. Luckily, he’ll probably have the chance to make amends in other championships, just as Usain did.
Terrorism Can’t Stop This Woman
Martine Wright lost her legs in the July 7th, 2005 terrorist bombings in London. Since then she has got married and had a son.Today, she appeared in the British sitting volleyball team at the Paralympics. The story is here in the Standard.
I wonder if her inspiring story will appear on NBC.
NBC Treats Paralympics With Contempt
Two of the UK’s broadsheets; The Times and The Telegraph, have turned their ire this morning on to the American broadcaster NBC, for its appalling coverage of the Paralympic Games. read the report in The Telegraph here.
I know I’m not watching the Paralympics live, as I don’t watch channels with adverts, unless it’s an important sporting event, that I’m interested in. But I am following the Games on BBC Radio 5 Live and television news reports.
I could cynically suggest that no-one in America would advertise in the breaks of the Paralympics, as it might give your organisation the wrong image. But I don’t know the facts.
Here in the UK, all the major channels have back-up digital channels, like BBC with BBC3 and BBC4 and Channel 4 with More4 and E4, which they use to compliment their major coverage, so can’t NBC put the Paralympics on a back-up free-to-air digital channel or is America so sophisticated that it doesn’t have an equivalent of our Freeview.
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