to be paid as they were in Baku, because they did not have as much responsibility in Lillehammer (one 25-year-old Turkish man who had worked for a year and one 23-year-old woman from Azerbaijan, who worked for 10 months). The man had been in the protocol service, had studied in Ankara and played football himself. The woman was in the service because she spoke Japanese, Russian, English and Azerbaijani, and she did not have a background in sports. They paid for the trip to Lillehammer and the accommodation in Tennishallen, Kringsjå themselves. They expressed that “it’s okay as long as we are young.” Both of them had plans to volunteer at the Olympics in Rio in 2016. They highlighted the good atmosphere among the international volunteers. In total, 12 of them had been volunteers in Baku. There seems to have been a large number of volunteers with prior experience in Lillehammer. Some volunteers who worked outdoors commented that the uniforms were not warm enough (Female, b. 1958, Australia).
Summary Part 6 • The international volunteers were younger and had a higher proportion of women than the rest of the volunteers. They had significantly higher education as well. • Nearly 60 percent of the volunteers who lived abroad did not work at a sports arena. • Twice the percentage of international volunteers worked more 91 hours – 36.1 percent versus 18.6 percent for the total. • The international volunteers were less satisfied with the atmosphere in the section they belonged to, the feedback they got from their co-workers, the information tools and the food than the rest of the volunteers.
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