Another Thursday, another Zoom meeting, and this is one that I created so we have a consistent location each week and each of the partners receives a reminder on their calendar to attend. That makes me the de facto host of the meeting, which means I make sure the virtual room gets “opened” and I let the participants in. We had a productive meeting about the brochure, which I sent to Josh. There are still a few more edits to make there. Something that came up during the meeting was the potential of our program competing with one by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) called Athlete365. As the name suggests, it is also a resource for Olympic athletes. I was asked to take a look at the offerings of Athlete365 to see whether they indeed do come into conflict with the IOC.
I started that process this evening. Based on what I have seen so far, my feeling is that Athlete365 does not bear any similarity to Life After the Games, but for the sake of performing due diligence, I will dig a little bit deeper in the coming days. The concern is legitimate and I do not want to find out later that the two programs are alike. Also, I am quite interested to see what Athlete365 does provide for Olympians the world over. Post-athletic transition is only going to grow as a topic, so the ICC has a big opportunity to lead the way with that. This is an exciting project all around.