Nearly 30 people from UBC will participate in the 2012 London Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, including up to 17 Olympians, 1 Paralympian, and 12 coaches, physicians, and support staff.
With the one-month mark to the Games approaching, below is a list of UBC experts and story ideas for the 2012 Summer Games in London. Follow @ubcnews on Twitter for more story ideas and updates and for the link to UBC’s 2012 Olympic website – coming soon.
OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES
Rob Vanwynsberghe
Dept. of Education Studies
Tel: 604.822.3580
Email: robert.vanwynsberghe@ubc.ca
- Social, economic and environmental impact of the Games
- Lead researcher of the 2010 Olympic Games Impact study
Robert Hindmarch
School of Kinesiology
Email: drbobh@interchange.ubc.ca
- Olympic history and Canadian participation in the Olympics
- Attended every Olympics from 1960 to 1998
- General manager of Canada’s UBC-based 1964 Olympic hockey team, former vice-president of Canadian Olympic Association
HEALTH ISSUES
Jack Taunton
UBC Faculty of Medicine and School of Kinesiology
Tel. 604.822.4122
Email: jack.taunton@ubc.ca
- Chief Medical Officer for 2010 Winter Olympic Games
- Served as advisor to 2012 Chief Medical Officer Richard Budgett
- Sports medicine, Olympic health, safety and emergency care, doping issues
Babak Shadgan
UBC Faculty of Medicine
Email: shadgan@gmail.com
- Chief Medical Officer for Olympic wrestling
- Iran’s first accredited sports physician
- Will investigate the use of near-infrared spectroscopy to diagnose common wrestling injuries
Bob McCormack
UBC Faculty of Medicine
Tel. 778-239-4606
Email: rmccormack@interchange.ubc.ca
- Medical Director, Canadian Olympic Committee, 2012 Games
Andrei Krassioukov
ICORD (International Collaboration on Repair and Discoveries)
Email: krassioukov@icord.org
- “Boosting” blood pressure to enhance athletic performance among Paralympians
- Running an education clinic in the Olympic Village on minimizing cardiovascular risks during training and competition; Cardiovascular disease is the primary cause of death for people with spinal cord injuries
- Spinal cord injury researcher
- Develop an addition to the current athlete classification system for the benefit of Paralympians with spinal cord injuries
SPORTS AND SPORT INJURIES
Jim Rupert
School of Kinesiology
Tel: 604.822.8462
Email: jim.rupert@ubc.ca
- Gene doping
- Can genetic variation affect doping control tests?
- Sex testing
- Genetics of performance
Karim Khan
School of Kinesiology and Dept. of Family Practice
Email: karim.khan@ubc.ca
- Sports injuries
- Hamstring tears and prevention, tendon injuries and corticosteroid injections
- Exercise and health in the United Kingdom
Michael Koehle
School of Kinesiology
Tel: 604.822.9331
Email: michael.koehle@ubc.ca
- Sport medicine: Injuries and illness in athletes
- Pollution and exercise
- Exercise physiology
- Medical coverage for sport mega-events; Head of medical at Whistler Olympic Park for the 2010 Games
Ben Sporer
Dept. of Family Practice
Email: bsporer@resync.ca
- Training for cyclists and endurance athletes
- High-performance sport and physiology
- Recovery and regeneration
- Participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympics with cycling and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics with snowboarding
SPORT PSYCHOLOGY
Peter Crocker
School of Kinesiology
Tel: 604.822.5580
Email: peter.crocker@ubc.ca
- Stress/pressure, coping and emotion in elite athletes
- Confidence
- Body image issues
Mark Beauchamp
School of Kinesiology
Tel: 604.822.4864
Email: mark.beauchamp@ubc.ca
- Team dynamics and leadership
- Confidence
BRANDING, SPONSORSHIP
Katherine White
UBC Sauder School of Business
Tel: 604.827.3711
Email: katherine.white@sauder.ubc.ca
- Olympics branding and sponsorship
- National identity and consumption
- Consumer behavior
SUSTAINABILITY
James Tansey
UBC Sauder School of Business
Tel: 604.827.4443
Email: james.tansey@sauder.ubc.ca
- Helping offset the carbon emissions associated with the Canadian Olympic Team’s travel to London
- Calculated the carbon footprint of the 2010 Game
Matt Dolf
Manager, Centre for Sport and Sustainability
School of Kinesiology
Tel: 778 322 9556
Email: mattdolf@interchange.ubc.ca
- Advises sports organizations and events on sustainability
- Expertise in life cycle assessment, carbon footprinting, and environmental performance of events
- Member of Canadian Standards Association Technical Committee on Sustainable Events
- Developed the Sustainable Sport and Event Toolkitwhich is supported by the IOC to improve the sustainability and planning of sporting organizations
PARALYMPICS
Bonita Sawatzky
UBC Orthopaedics
Email: bonitas@mail.ubc.ca
- Biomechanics of wheelchair propulsion
- Optimizing athlete performance in a wheelchair
- Attending a spinal cord injury conference in London during the Games
UBC PEOPLE HEADING TO LONDON
Sasha Neth
Vancouver-based UBC alumnus volunteering for London Games
Phone: 604-219-7948 (cell)
Email: saschaneth@yahoo.ca
- Leaves from Vancouver for London on July 20 to volunteer as Residential Team Member in Athlete’s Village
“I wanted to volunteer for the London Games because my Vancouver Games experience volunteering was amazing,” says Neth. “I’m curious to see how London will compare with Vancouver, given the even greater scale of Summer Olympics and the bigger city.”
Jordan Wade
UBC Graduate School of Journalism student
Email: waderadio@gmail.com
- Journalism student in London to report on the Games with video stories, blog posts and tweets
- Was site manager and emcee for Yahoo Sports Fancouver, an interactive fan zone during 2010 Vancouver Games
Julian Dierkes
UBC Institute of Asian Research
Email: julian.dierkes@ubc.ca
- Leaves Vancouver July 6 to volunteer for a National Olympic Committee in London
- Will share his insights and experiences on Twitter at @JulianDierkes
UBC 2012 OLYMPIANS AND PARALYMPIANS
Scott Dickens (former student, confirmed): Swimming – 100 & 200 Breaststroke, 4×100 Medley Relay
Brent Hayden (former student, confirmed): Swimming – 50 & 100 Freestyle, 4×100 Freestyle Relay, 4×100 Medley Relay
Nikola Girke (alumus, confirmed): Windsurfing
Tommy Gossland (student, confirmed): Swimming – 4×100 Freestyle Relay
Savannah King (student, confirmed): Swimming – 400 & 800 Freestyle
Heather MacLean (student, confirmed) Swimming – 4×100 Freestyle Relay
Martha McCabe(student, confirmed): Swimming – 200 Breaststroke
Tera Van Beilen (student, confirmed): Swimming – 100 & 200 Breaststroke
Donovan Tildesley (alumnus, confirmed): Paralympic swimming
Toby Ng (student, confirmed): Badminton
Inaki Gomez (alumnus, confirmed): Track & Field – 20 km Racewalk
Mike Mason (alumnus, confirmed): Track & Field – High Jump
Curtis Moss (alumnus, confirmed): Track & Field – Javelin
Liz Gleadle (student, confirmed): Track & Field – Javelin
Luke Ramsay (alumnus, confirmed): Sailing – 470 class
Mike Leigh (alumnus, confirmed): Sailing – 470 class
Ricardo Montemayor (student, confirmed, competing for Mexico): Sailing – Laser class
Denise Ramsden (student, confirmed): Road Cycling – Timed trials and road race
Nikola Girke (alumna, confirmed): Windsurfing
Hunter Lowden (alumnus, confirmed): Sailing – 49er
Visit the UBC newsroom for updates to this list: www.ubc.ca/news.
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