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Clydesider: Photo Team at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome

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I feel so overwhelmed by my experience volunteering at the velodrome for the Commonwealth Games that I'm resorting to a series of vignettes rather than a narrative! The Photo Team volunteers were, without exception, fantastic people: really friendly and conscientious. Our manager really helped to make an 'experience' out of our work, from a team photo by Tom Jenkins (yes,  that  Tom Jenkins) to a picture with Chris Hoy: Photo: Tom Jenkins (!!) I'm not sure if Chris Hoy knew that Cav (the photo manager, not the venue) had arranged for us to be in the picture too as he seemed a bit surprised when the green-bibbed people leapt onto the rostrum with him. In typically cool Hoy style he simply greeted us with 'Hey guys!' and kept posing. But then he had had someone leap into his taxi for a selfie at traffic lights that morning... Then there was the Jonathan Edwards Shirt Change. On the first morning we were standing in the infield an hour or so b