Are you a team player and a sports person? Are you brave enough to to play with fire? If yes, then you must join the AUBG Olympics family. Here you will find your second home, build life-lasting friendships and practice all the sports that you love. Read our interview with the President of AUBG Olympics Georgi Staykov and learn more about what they do.
How would you describe your club in 3 words?
Olympics is not just a club, it is the definition of what remains when everything else is gone.
What is your club about?
We have to give the people what they want. So, here it is – BBQ, beer, and the occasional sports tournament. Now, in all seriousness, Olympics is about what lies beyond the obvious. Sport is what we do but it is not all we are. We forge spirits on and off the field. We struggle together, and we win together.
No matter where you come from, where you have been, or where you aspire to be one day, if you befriend fire, it embeds in your very being for the rest of your life.
Call it persistence, dedication, or sheer will, Olympics is about the never-ending relentless desire that lives in your rib cage and excites every cell in your body when contest is at hand.
What kind of people are you looking for in your club?
I think it is a mistake to look only for a certain type of people. It deprives you and the club from a possible array of opinions and mindsets. There is one thing, however, that we look for in the people who want to join our ranks – the burning desire to leave a mark and excel above the quotidian nature of mediocre achievements.
What kind of events do you organize?
Throughout the semesters we organize Challenging Wednesdays (CW) – one-sport tournaments. We have three CWs every semester. This year we had to switch gears and organized the tournaments entirely outdoors and throughout the day.
Our main event is usually at the end of the academic year, in April (this is a subject to change in today’s world). We call it D-Day. It is the culmination of our year and is essentially a weekend saturated with sports, entertainment, and leisurely revelry. D-Day is our representation of the Olympics Games. We organize 16 sports, and you will hear it here first – in our 2021 iteration, we will take a step forward and include one more sport, making them 17. Stay tuned for more.
What is the meaning behind your club’s name?
This one is easy – Olympics Games.
How has being part of this club enhanced your AUBG experience?
I knew nothing about AUBG and the extracurricular life before I got here. I was not obsessed or passionate about it, I had no specific expectations. The first person I met on campus, when I arrived back in the Fall of 2017, was a member of Olympics. Coincidentally, the second person I met was also a member of the club. I joined Olympics in my first year and now that I think about it – my first semester is a bit blurry.
What I am left with is a feeling, not a mental image in my mind.
I learned that fire is many things: enchanting, alluring, mesmerizing, even dangerous, if you are careless. What the people in the club showed me they knew best was how to become one with the fire.
Intertwined, throughout the years, I understood the true meaning of fellowship, loyalty, and commitment. Let me ask you this:
Have you ever wanted to feel like you belong to something special? How about something that changes lives? I have. I found it right here. I told you – sport is what we do but it is not all we are. For me, Olympics is what keeps me pushing forward when all odds tell me that I cannot succeed. Olympics is that thing in the back of my mind that ignites my passions and gives shapes to my dreams. Olympics is fire. Find yours.
