NEWS
No change to Olympic
Stadium plans
Olympic minister Tessa Jowell has
The designs include the addition of a 25m swimming pool
maintained that the 80,000-capac-
ity athletics stadium being built for
Billingham Forum to be revamped
the 2012 Games will later be down-
sized to a 25,000-seat venue.
In response to London Mayor
B
illingham Forum has closed to the the existing learner pool. An extended Boris Johnson’s suggestion that
public in order to allow construc- gym providing 30 additional stations, a the Stratford venue retain its full
tion work on a £15m refurbish- new dance studio, an upgraded ice rink capacity in size to potentially host
ment scheme to get underway at the facility and an enhanced reception area the 2018 World Cup, the Olympics
leisure complex, which is expected to also form part of the scheme, as well as minister said: “We don’t need an-
last for 18 months. improvements to the indoor, two-lane other football stadium – we’ve got
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council bowls court the four-court sports hall Wembley. We made a commitment
(SBC) and operator Tees Active are work- and two squash courts. in the bid that the Olympic Stadium
ing in partnership on the revamp, which Morgan Ashurst, the Warwickshire- in legacy will be a 20- to 25,000-seat
will include a six-lane, 25m swimming based construction company has been athletics stadium.”
pool with a new training pool alongside appointed to deliver the scheme.
Scottish Judo to
Funding boost for Northern Irish sport
increase youth
participation
S
port Northern Ireland (SNI) has an-
nounced that it will be ploughing
£6m into performance sport over
S
portscotland has announced the next two years.
that it will be investing a total The funding will be spread between
of £414,900 in the develop- 35 sports governing bodies as SNI aims
ment of JudoScotland. to create a world-class system to develop
The money will target the key elite athletes.
areas of youth participation and the The associations to benefit from the
funding will allow the appointment funding include Cricket Ireland, The Irish
of more talent coaches to work with Football Association and Ulster Rugby,
judo athletes aged 12-19 – the age with each sport having its own target.
when most begin to take part in Cricket Ireland aims to increase partici-
organised competitions. pation among youngsters by 5 per cent
Rugby is among the sports to benefit
Jim Feenan, chair of JudoScot- each year and has announced its targets
from the development funding
land, said: “The overall package of of being ranked 8th in One Day Interna-
investment offered by sportscotland tional cricket. The Irish Football Associa- approach with the governing bodies of
will be warmly welcomed by judoka tion meanwhile will invest its share of the sports will bring us closer to establishing
across Scotland. money into an Excellence Development a world-class system for athlete devel-
“We believe that the support re- Programme for the next four years. Ulster opment consisting of services, facilities
ceived has the potential to benefit all Rugby plans to increase participation by and competition following the hosting
those participating within the sport 10 per cent over the next four years. of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in
and will enable us to encourage SNI chief executive, Eamonn McCartan, London in 2012 and the Commonwealth
more young Scots to give judo a try.” said: “We believe that our partnership Games in Glasgow 2014.”
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