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| Hillsborough Leisure Centre named as London 2012 pre-games training facility |
 Hillsborough Leisure Centre is amongst twenty-one of South Yorkshire's sporting facilities, covering sports such as rowing, archery and athletics will feature in the London Organising Committee Pre-Games Training Camp Guide, it was announced today. Other SIV venues: Ponds Forge ISC, Ice Sheffield, English Institute of Sport and Concord Sports Centre are also amongst the chosen venues from our region. The successful venues are: All Saints Specialist Sports College, Collegiate Campus, Concord Sports Centre, Dorothy Hyman Sports Centre, English Institute of Sport, Graham Solley Sports Development Centre, Hillsborough Leisure Centre, iceSheffield, Ladybower Reservior, Mount St Marys College, Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, Rother Valley Country Park, Shaw Lane Community Sports Centre, Sheffield United Academy, St Leger Horse Park, Woodbourne Road Athletics Stadium, The Metrodome Leisure Complex, The Doncaster Dome, Don Valley Stadium, Keepmoat Stadium, Sheffield Wednesday Training Ground. Over 600 facilities from across the UK will appear in the Guide, to be published at the Beijing Games. It contains high quality elite sporting facilities right across the UK which will give teams and individual athletes a great selection of venues from which they can choose to prepare for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Guide will be circulated to all National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and National Paralympic Committees (NPCs). These organisations will then decide where they base themselves or where to send individual athletes to prepare and acclimatise for London 2012. Extensive details of the facilities will appear on a dedicated website showcasing the quality and variety of options throughout the UK which will help NOCs / NPCs decide where to train. The national tourism agency, Visit Britain, is developing this new website with LOCOG and will bring its experience of marketing destinations and tourism products to international audiences. The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is also able to offer a financial award of up to £25,000 to NOCs/NPCs to help encourage teams to base themselves in the UK. LOCOG has an allocation from its privately raised budget for this process and believes this will be an incentive for NOCs / NPCs to base themselves in the UK. |
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