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“30 Seconds with Jacques Rogge,” president of the International Olympic Committee:
Q. The world knows you for your presence at the Olympics. What do you do the rest of the time?
A. I would start working at close to 8 o’clock. My normal day would be being briefed about the world media, and I get the highlights of the day. Then I would have individual visits by many people visiting Lausanne. When this is done, it is about 7, 8 p.m., and I go home. The other part is traveling, because you need to have face time. There is no way you can run such an organization with just e-mails, videoconferencing or telephone calls.
Q. Do you keep track of how far you fly each year?
A. I don’t keep track. My secretary — because I asked her one day, how many planes do I take a year? — she said about 150 or 170. I know exactly how the interior of the cabin of every single manufactured plane is, and likewise when I wake up in a hotel, I know immediately whether it is a Hilton or a Marriott.
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Greg Lindsay writes frequently about the intersection of transportation, urbanization, and globalization. He is the author, with John D. Kasarda, of the forthcoming Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next, (March 2011) which examines how and where we choose to live in an interconnected world—in cities orbiting airports, and not the other way around. (It’s available for pre-order now.) He is a contributing writer for Fast Company, and has written for Fortune, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Wired, and Time.
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