Montreal Olympics
An Insider's View of Organizing a Self-financing Games
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2008
- Category
- Olympics, Post-Confederation (1867-)
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773582590
- Publish Date
- Jun 2008
- List Price
- $50.00
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Description
Paul Howell, a planning consultant and key player in the Montreal Olympic Organizing Committee, offers an insider's perspective on how a vast, complex, expensive, and highly politicized event was organized within the constraints imposed by limited resources, an unyielding deadline, and intense pressures from international and local special interest groups. He looks at both the struggles and what went uniquely right in Montreal, setting the record straight on operations, political involvement, and finance, including details of the well-publicized multi-billion dollar deficit that was misrepresented by the press and misunderstood by the public for decades.
About the author
Paul Charles Howell, president of HT/TH Howell Technologie, has planned large projects worldwide, including several Olympic Games, and lectured in the McGill Faculty of Management and the HÉC, Université de Montréal.