By Greg Hazley
Bob Condron, who handled media relations during 15 Olympic Games over 28 years at the U.S. Olympic Committee, plans to retire at the end of the year.
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His exit comes ahead of the 2012 Games in London and as the USOC said this week that it would not put together a bid for the 2020 Summer Games.
“No journalist or broadcaster saddled with the staggering responsibility of covering the Olympic Games, from Los Angeles to Vancouver, had a better friend or advocate than Bob,” said Mike Moran, former USOC head of communications who hired Condron from sports information director slot at Southern Methodist University. “It didn’t matter whether they were from the New York Times or the Anchorage Daily News. Or from Sports Illustrated or Reader’s Digest.”
Condron handled the media accreditation process for the Colorado Springs-based USOC for the last decade and served the International Olympic Committee press commission for eight years, counseling organizing committees on media operations and services.
Patrick Sandusky, the former Hill & Knowlton exec who helped Chicago pitch the 2016 Games, was named chief communications officer of USOC in October 2009.
Condron, who only would say he was born during World War II, will consult for the IOC and other Olympic groups part-time, is slated to marry in March. He will exit on Jan. 2, the same day he started in 1984.
“It was beautiful, and every day was magic,” he said.
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