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Eton Manor's Olympic plans approved
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Legacy mode to include hockey and tennis centre operated by local park authority
RFU reports increase
in operating profit
By Martin Nash The Rugby Football Union
(RFU) has reported a 66 per cent
The Olympic Delivery Authority increase in operating profit to
(ODA) has been granted £18.9m for the 12 months ending
planning permission for Eton 30 June 2009, when compared
Manor, which will be used by with the previous year. According
Olympic and Paralympic to the RFU, an increase in the
swimmers to train for London number of international fixtures
2012, and by Paralympic staged at Twickenham Stadium
athletes competing in the helped to boost its results for
wheelchair tennis events the year, as well as a reduction
During the Olympic Games, in depreciation following a
Eton Manor will house three
:
oda
review of the venue's new South
50m swimming pools, one image Stand facilities.
synchronised swimming pool Eton Manor will host the wheelchair tennis competition during 2012
and one water polo pool that
Work on Trump's
will be used during the Games funded by the Lee Valley The mountain bike trails,
resort gets underway
for training. During the Regional Park Authority. which will form part of the Work has begun on Donald
Paralympic Games, Eton Manor The permanent elements will VeloPark, will also be extended Trump's £1bn Scottish golf resort.
will host Wheelchair Tennis. include a hockey centre with onto Eton Manor. The Aberdeenshire course,
In legacy the centre will be two competition pitches, a Start of construction on the designed by Gareth Hoskins
converted into a hockey and tennis centre with four indoor facility will be in spring 2010, Architects, is yet to receive full
tennis centre, with the facilities and six outdoor courts and with completion by the summer planning permission for the
being owned, operated and five-a-side football pitches. of 2011 for test events. entire development, but early
work – such as stabilisation of
WRU opens new
the sand dunes and the laying of
training facility
UK towns to stage major events
marram grass turves – is to begin
already. The 500-acre course
A £4m National Centre of – which Trump claims will be the
Excellence near Cardiff, "greatest golf course in history" –
designed to provide elite will boast two 18-hole golf
training facilities for the courses designed by golf architect
Welsh Rugby Union, has Martin Hawtree, which will be
been opened by first separated by a clubhouse open to
minister Rhodri Morgan. guests and visitors, a caddyshack,
Players selected to a short-game practice area and a
represent the Welsh driving range.
international rugby union
teams at all levels will Elite athletes are set to compete in events at towns across the UK
Newcastle United "no
train at the centre, which
longer on the market"
is located at the Vale By Pete Hayman national governing bodies to Newcastle United Football Club
Resort, Hensol, and boasts include 20 cities and towns. (NUFC) has confirmed that owner
three outdoor pitches UK Sport, the national high Towns such as Dorchester, Mike Ashley has decided against
with external skills performance sports agency, has Hereford and Largs are in line selling the club after Tyneside
training zones. unveiled plans to hold a major to host an event over the next businessman Barry Moat failed in
One of the three pitches sporting event every two weeks 1,000 days in addition to the an £80m takeover bid. Ashley put
is fitted with an all- in the lead up to the London English Open Table Tennis the Coca-Cola Championship club
weather surface and 2012 Olympics. Championships in Sheffield. up for sale in June for £100m,
floodlights in order for it A list of 64 events has been UK Sport chief executive but despite reported interest
to be used day and night drawn up by the agency, which officer, John Steele, said: "We from a number of prospective
all year round. The second will incorporate 30 Olympic believe this is the most buyers, NUFC has been unable to
pitch has also been and Paralympic sports and has comprehensive programme of secure a new owner and will now
equipped with floodlights. been developed in partnership events that any host country remain under the control of the
with regional authorities and has ever put together." sportswear tycoon.
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