To expand and collapse the navigation please click on the headings
Go to other Related Subject areas
Museum on the Move: What 2012 will mean for Warwickshire
Build up for the Olympics has already started in Warwickshire and Coventry with 7 venues being selected for inclusion into the official Olympic Pre-Games Training Camp Guide.
The Venues
The venues hand-picked by Games’ organisers to become training camps are:
Pingles Leisure Centre, Nuneaton
Ricoh Arena, Coventry
Royal Leamington Spa Polo Club, Southam
Rugby School
Stoneleigh Park
University of Warwick, Coventry
Warwickshire College – Moreton Morrell site
Warwickshire Hopefuls
Coventry hosted the 2007 UK School Games, an annual event held in the run up to 2012 featuring 1300 young people, competing in eight sports over five venues.
Athletes all over Warwickshire are training and competing at regional, national and international level with the London Games in their sights.
Along with previous Games participants other sports men and women hoping to be picked for Team GB include hammer thrower Hayley Murray from Nuneaton, hurdlers Sara McGreavy and Nathan Woodward, and Kelly Sibley, who has played Table Tennis at Commonwealth level already.
Effect on Business
According to the Coventry and Warwickshire 2012 Partnership the opportunities for local business are not to be missed.- “The 2012 London Games will give us all the incentive to participate in sport and sporting events and give businesses the chance to build the sport and leisure economy in Coventry and Warwickshire. “ The potential economic benefit to the Midlands has been estimated at £3.2bn, so Coventry and Warwickshire businesses need to plan now to participate in this once in a business lifetime opportunity.”- David Hartley