Athletes of the Day 8

Athletes of the Day 8

published on 28 July, 2017

Today, the expert team decided to award the other heroes of these Games.

The athletes make the Games, but without volunteers, we would not be here today. There are 1600 awesome volunteers at The World Games 2017, and the following ones get the honour to represent them today.

Urszula Gren is the leader of the Jokers – they are a group of volunteers dedicated to special tasks, who are sent to different venues when needed. She spends many hours in contact with each venue and collects their needs. She works till late night and is a person who solves all the problems. She takes care of that every fire is extinguished and The World Games runs without any problems.

Reliable Trio of Jokers – Jacek Baczkowski, Dawid Dziedzic and Mariusz Kozlowski.

This trio of Jokers has been working day and night for the past 10 days. They have seen all the venues and dived into the Pergola fountain after the Sunday storm. Their leader can rely on them in everything, and they constantly ask for more to do. They are representing all the volunteers, even though they also stand out with their incredibly positive and energetic attitude!

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