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SkillsActive unveils new offi ciating standards PETE HAYMAN
SkillsActive, the sector skills council for sport and active leisure, has teamed up with Sports Offi cials UK to launch a new set of occupational standards for offi ciating. T e National Standards for Offi ciating
have been drawn up in order to help boost umpiring and refereeing excellence across a wide range of sports at every level. It is hoped that the standards from
SkillsActive and Sports Offi cials UK are to assist with the design of offi cials’ courses and other development activities.
Kids ‘shunning’ physical activity PETE HAYMAN
New research to mark the launch of the Tata Kids of Steel triathlon initiative has found that nearly four-fi ſt hs of UK children spend their free time watching television. A survey of 1,500 young
people aged between six and 15 – commissioned by Tata Steel in partnership with British Triathlon – revealed only a third played sport. T e study also found that
56 per cent surfed the inter- net; 45 per cent used social networks; and 43 per cent played video games, rather than participating in physical activity. It was also revealed that 15 per cent of children questioned admitted being unable to swim, while one in ten young people said they could not ride a bicycle. It comes as Tata Steel has pledged to provide more than 50,000 young people aged between
Members of the public can now use the complex
2012 white water venue opens to public users PETE HAYMAN
Lee Valley White Water Centre in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, is the fi rst London 2012 venue to open to the public. Morrison Construction built the venue,
with S&P Architects working as the deliv- ery designers for the project. Lee Valley Regional Park Authority will own and run the centre before and aſt er the Games. Facilities include a 300m competition
course; a 160m intermediate/training course; and a FaulknerBrowns Architects- designed facility building.
£13.5m Birmingham pool scheme moves forward PETE HAYMAN
Birmingham City Council’s cabinet is to move forward with proposals for a new £13.5m swimming pool in Sparkhill. Members backed the launch of a com-
petitive tender process for the design, build and management of the new facility. A 25m, six-lane pool, a learner pool, a
dance studio, a 70-station adult gym and a 20-station junior gym are proposed. Councillors are also hopeful that savings
can be made from the £13.5m estimate. T e tender process will launch in July.
T e study found that a third of children play sport in their leisure time
eight and 13 with the opportunity to take part in a triathlon. T is summer will see the initia- tive visit 18 UK locations. Karl Köhler, chief executive offi cer of Tata
Steel in Europe, said: “T is research has high- lighted a number of important issues which we hope Tata Kids of Steel will help to address.”
Olympic Torch Relay route announced PETE HAYMAN
Nearly 75 locations across the UK have been revealed as forming part of the route for next summer’s Olympic Torch Relay by the organis- ers of the 2012 Games. T e itinerary was unveiled
by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and is also set to include visits to the UK’s six island territories. On 18 May next year, the
Olympic Flame is due to arrive from Greece and will embark on a 70-day tour presented by Coca- Cola, Lloyds TSB and Samsung. T e route will start at Land’s End, Cornwall,
T e fi rst 74 locations to form part of the 70-day tour have been named
on 19 May and will move through Devon into South Wales within the fi rst week. T e relay
will eventually end in London in late July. Meanwhile, LOCOG has also confi rmed that discussions are underway between “relevant parties” with a view to including Dublin, Ireland, in the Olympic Flame’s itinerary.
ICC to ‘revisit’ 2015 World Cup decision PETE HAYMAN
Plans for a Cricket World Cup in 2015 compris- ing just the Full Members are to be “revisited” by the International Cricket Council (ICC) . ICC president Sharad Pawar has called on the executive board to re-examine the issue
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when it meets in Hong Kong in June, aſt er pro- tests from associate and affi liate nations. Under the new format for the 2015 tour-
nament, teams including Ireland and the Netherlands will not be able to compete despite having done so in the previous two events.
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