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School Reaches Final of
2012
Design Competition
A school from Suffolk as reached
the final of the London 2012 'VeloDream' competition - a UK schools
competition for pupils to designtheir own dream Olympic cycling
venues of the future. A world-class Velodrome and BMX facilities
will host the track and BMXevents during 2012 and after the Games,
a road cycle circuit and mountain biking facilities will be added
to create a legacy VeloPark.
The VeloDream competition
launched in September last year, asked school children aged 5 - 16
to tap into their creative talents to design their own dream
VeloPark to host the cycling sports of a future Games. More than
500 schools around the country signed up for the competition and
the entries have been narrowed down to 10 finalists, including
Heath Primary School from Kesgrave.
The school will now head to
London for a grand final event on Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th
February where they will take part in a design workshop with the
London 2012 VeloPark design team. An awards ceremony will then take
place at the Design Museum in London where Olympics Minister Tessa
Jowell and Paralympian Ade Adipitan will announce a winning primary
and secondary school as the National VeloDream competition winners.
For further information visit www.london2012.com
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London 2012 Roadshow targets
Suffolk
Thursday, 31 May 2007
The London 2012 Roadshow due to be launched next
month (June 2007) - has selected Suffolk as one of the counties it
will visit this summer to promote participation in sport.
The Roadshow is an annual event to encourage
people right across the country to get involved with the London
2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
The special branded Roadshow bus will visit the
Suffolk Youth Games to be held at Bury St Edmunds on Sunday 8 July
one of 27 stops in a ten-week tour of the UK.
The theme of this years summer Roadshow is Join
In - encouraging sports participation, particularly amongst young
people, and coaching. The organisers are the London 2012 Organising
Committee, the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS),
Sport England and national sports councils in Scotland, Wales and
Northern Ireland and The National Lottery.
At the Suffolk Youth Games and the other 26 stops
on the UK tour - the Roadshow will offer taster sessions in a range
of traditional and exciting new sports for visitors to try.
Professional sports advisors will be on hand to encourage visitors
to find out more about local sporting clubs and facilities.
The Roadshow will also contain a National Lottery
Dream Statistics zone, to enable visitors to see how their
statistics including height, weight, and muscle power might make
them suited to different sports.
The 2007 Suffolk Youth Games will be held at Bury
St Edmunds Leisure Centre and King Edward VI School from 10am to
5pm on Sunday 8 July. Admission is free and everyone is
welcome.
The county youth games, now in its eighth year,
will involve up to 1000 young people from across Suffolk in an
inter-district competition across 8 sports and both athletics and
swimming will include competition for disabled competitors.
Alongside the competition - and the 2012 Roadshow
- there will be lots more opportunities to taste a range of
demonstration sports. There will also be the traditional opening
and closing ceremonies to celebrate the success and participation
of all competitors.
The local partnerships delivering the event are
Suffolk Sport and the Suffolk Strategic Group for the London 2012
Games
Derek Bowden, Chair of the Suffolk Strategic
Group for the London 2012 Games commented:
We are delighted that the London 2012 Roadshow is
visiting Suffolk and particularly the Suffolk Youth Games. Our
event is a great annual showcase for the opportunities to take part
in sport and active leisure pursuits in the county.
London 2012 Chair Sebastian Coe commented:
The London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic
Games are the UKs Games. This years Roadshow will show the
whole country how everyone can be part of the 2012 Games, and
everyone can benefit from the legacy long after the final race has
been won.
Improving sports participation has long been one
of our most important legacy objectives from the Games, and this
years Roadshow will focus on just that. Every visitor at every
event will have a range of opportunities to try new sports and
learn about sports facilities in their local area. This country
already has a passion for sport and deepening that passion for
playing sport and coaching sport will be an important legacy which
will outlast us all.
Notes to Editors:
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The London 2012 Roadshow will be launched on 13 June at Tower Bridge, London. The national tour will kick off on 15 June in Greenwich.
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The special branded Roadshow bus will visit Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and each of the nine regions within England, ending its journey in Stoke Mandeville on 29 August - marking five years to go to the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
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National Lottery funding will contribute up to £2.2 billion* towards the cost of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympics Games. £750 million of Good Causes money raised by sales of designated lottery games, such as the draw-based game Dream Number and certain scratch cards and interactive games, will go towards funding the provision of facilities and supporting infrastructure of the 2012 Games.
* Subject to Parliamentary approval
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Sport England exists to sustain and increase participation in community sport. It is a non-departmental public body and Lottery distributor. Its ambition is to get two million people participating more in sport by 2012. Sport England does this by promoting, advising and investing in community sport.
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The first 2012 Roadshow in July 2006 visited 65 locations, travelling 3,355 miles over a three week period. Further details can be found at http://www.london2012.org/en/gettinginvolved/2012+Roadshow/
Contact at Suffolk Sport for the Suffolk Youth Games:
Tracy Brownlow:
Tel 01379 677307 / 07901 857732
Contact for the Suffolk Strategic Group:
Richard Hunt
Tel 01473 264626
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