Yet again it seems the East Midlands will not be benefiting from the 2012 London Olympics...this morning we heard the news that Loughborough will not be used as a training camp for the GB team at the 2008 Olympics, they lost out to barracks in Aldershot.
I appreciate that this site is within proximity to the London site, however if they are just training rather than being based there throughout the games surely they could be based anywhere in the country.
We keep hearing news from the Olympic committee that these games will benefit the whole country, but the closer we get to the games it seems the south is getting the monopoly on the whole thing. I blogged about the National Water Sports Centre last year as the funding will end in March 2009. In my opinion, it would have been a better investment to upgrade these facilities rather than building new ones…especially with the budget for the games going up and up and because if we were any other country, the games organisers wouldn’t think anything of having an event 1 or 2hours away from the Olympic city…
So, I will listen with a keen ear throughout the year to see if I can find out exactly how we will benefit from the 2012 games…
Ruth
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