Planting his weary feet on the track at Athens’ Olympic Stadium, Jeremy Akel had finally realised a life-long ambition — although for the offshore helicopter executive, some of the worst weather the Greek capital can muster had never been part of the dream.
“Apart from the driving wind, sideways rain and freezing temperatures, I did great,” the new chief executive of Lisbon-based Omni Helicopters International (OHI Group) says of his completion in 2011 of what is the original Olympic marathon course.
