With joy and great appreciation, I greet all of you who have shown an interest in the organizing of the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2017 and decided to personally contribute to the success of the event by working as volunteers. I warmly welcome you all to be part of our over 400-strong organization. Each one of us has our own role and tasks, shifts, team leaders and every one of us bears a great responsibility for the overall success of the event. I would like to emphasize that every single role is important and has its part in contributing to the bigger picture.
At the orientation meeting for the volunteers held at the beginning of February, I raised a few themes in particular to rouse that sense of working and doing together during the Championships.
I hope we all keep these simple mottos in mind:
A positive attitude and a happy smiling face will make a difference in every situation.
It is to be expected that the days filled with different kinds of duties will be intense. So, I kindly want to remind you to eat, sleep and rest between shifts in order to have the energy and to be at your best when your next shift starts.
Our happiness infects those around us! So, let’s make it spread.
In different tasks, there will be situations, no doubt, in which a competitor, spectator, judge, official or another volunteer asks us a question and at that moment we are not able to provide them with an answer. None of us can remember everything by heart, but we can, nevertheless, always help and try to find out an answer to the question. So, let’s not leave the person with the question all alone, but let’s do our best instead to find the people who can help us answer the question.
The theme of Finland’s centenary celebration is Together. Now this is what our event is very much about, working together. Let’s organize a spectacular event, together!
I thank you all!
- Laura Raitio, President of Finnish Figure Skating Association
About 400 volunteers will be involved in the organizing of the event. The volunteers will carry out a variety of essential tasks and roles to make the competition happen. To learn more about a particular volunteer team and its responsibilities, click on the task/role links below (will be updated shortly).
Construction and Ice resurfacing
Hospitality for Judges and Officials
Ice Rink Help Desk for participating Teams
Other contents of the Volunteers' Handbook:
Key Information for the Volunteers
Schedule Competition / Practices (these links will take you to the official competition website, to return to the handbook, click on the browser’s back button)
Live the great atmosphere over again and have a look of outstanding photos of the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2017. The gallery is here.
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