LONDON 2012
PRE-GAMES TRAINING CAMPS W
e look at the world-class sporting facilities at three pre-games training camps and find out how the operators plan to use this opportunity to engage and inspire the local communities .
More than 200 Pre-Games Training Camps for the Lon-
don 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games have now been agreed across Britain, for use by 93 competing countries through National Olympic and Paralympic Committees (NOC and NPC) and international teams. Providing athletes
with a base from which to prepare, train and acclimatise ahead of the Games, these camps were recognised during the bid as an essential part of an athlete’s preparation for the Games. To this end, London offered a financial award of up to
£25,000 (US$40,000, 30,000) to every NOC and NPC who sends a team to prepare in approved training camps in the UK, to encourage teams from across the world to use local facilities for their Games’ preparations.
LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY
OLYMPIC TEAMS • British Olympic Association (BOA) • Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC)
Having made a unique contribution to sport in the UK for more than 60 years, Loughborough University offers state-of- the-art facilities, built in partnership with many sports national governing bodies (NGBs). Its 437-acre campus is also home to some of the country’s leading coaches, sports scientists and support staff.
The university’s sports scholarship
programme enables 250 of the finest young athletes to excel in both their academic and sporting arenas. Its students have won the British
Universities and Colleges Sport Championship for 30 years and 56 past and present students represented TeamGB in the Beijing 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games. So far 17 swimmers, canoeists and
athletes who either study, are based at or
Elite athletes will have access to the high performance gym
are university alumni have been selected for this year’s Games. As testament to its international
renown for its teaching and research into sports science and engineering, a £15m Sports Technology Institute was opened in 2007 to develop cutting-edge technology for the UK’s sport and leisure sector.
FACILITIES The facilities have been designed to create a specific training environment, which gives the best possible support to athletes seeking to achieve excellence and success. It offers an environment to match technical specifications, equipment, floor surfaces, lighting and climatic conditions that will be found at London 2012 sporting venues. The National High Performance Centre
(next to the Paula Radcliffe Stadium) has eight 120m-sprint lanes, two long-jump lanes with a sand pit, a high-jump bed, two pole-vault beds, separate areas for javelin and discus and a strength and conditioning suite. Badminton, netball, gymnastics,
hockey and taekwondo have dedicated high performance centres on campus and rugby league used the university as a base for last year’s Four Nations’ Championship. There are two tennis centres, including
a Lawn Tennis Association regional academy, and a beach volleyball court has been erected in recent weeks.
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