Athletics: Careers for achievers

New Zealand's Olympic sporting achievers can now start planning for a life, and more significantly a career, long before their competition days are over.

The New Zealand Olympic Committee has signed up as a partner to the Adecco Athletes Career Programme. This follows agreement reached in February 2005 between the global leader in human resource services, Adecco Group, and the International Olympic Committee, designed to support the career development of Olympic athletes.

The programme will run alongside a SPARC initiative, Avenues, which already has hundreds of New Zealand's elite athletes on their books.