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Venues win Olympic role
The borough's university college and Twickenham Stadium are among the venues revealed this week as potential sites for pre-games training camps for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.
The Rugby Football Union base has been named as a site for archery teams to train while St Mary's University College, in Twickenham, is hoping to attract athletics, badminton,
basketball, fencing, handball, indoor volleyball and weightlifting competitors.
The Royal Canoe Club, on the River Thames in Teddington, was also listed in the London
organising committee's pre-games training camp guide as a possible site for canoeing and kayaking teams to train and the portion of Barn Elms Sports Centre operated by Wandsworth Council was also named as a potential archery venue.
The guide, which contains more than 600 potential sites, will be circulated to all national Olympic and Paralympic committees, before decision are made on where teams and individual athletes prepare and acclimatise for London 2012.
St Mary's, in Waldegrave Road, will also be leading the south west London cluster of organisations for these camps under the umbrella of Go South Go, representing local authorities, universities, colleges and many sports organisations and bodies in the area.
Professor Dick Fisher, who oversees the development of sport across the life of the College and will be attending the Beijing Olympics this summer as a representative of St. Mary's University College, Go South Go and London Higher, was delighted with the decision,
announced on Monday, March 3.
He said: "We are already a designated high
performance centre for sport and the only university in London to host an English Institute of Sport hub-site, so we were hoping to be in the official prospectus and are delighted to have this confirmed.
"We are already in contact with several countries and will work with our Go South Go colleagues to make a real success of this wonderful initiative."
11:12am Friday 7th March 2008
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