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Eleanor Simmonds was born with achondroplasia or dwarfism, and has been swimming since she was five. At 13 she was the youngest member of the British team in Beijing and became our second youngest British Paralympic Champion ever!
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15 July 2008: adidas unveiled an exhibition of photography celebrating the athletes competing in Beijing. Each athlete is pictured in a setting that has inspired them in their chosen sport.
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27 January 2009: The first section of the Stadium roof is fitted into place on top of the Stadium's steel seating rakers.
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On the busiest days of the Games, up to 500,000 spectators and around 50,000 athletes will need transport. We are improving transport infrastructure to meet this demand. Many of these improvements will be finished before 2012 and will benefit commuters.
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A new permanent facility on the edge of the Lee Valley Regional Park, Hertfordshire, with a 300m competition course.
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Men’s 1km Time Trial (LC3-4)
Men’s Individual Pursuit (LC3)
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Archery - Men’s Individual Open Compound
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This public 'live site' is one of eight that have been created at locations across the UK.
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Men’s 200m Individual Medley (SM6)
Men’s 100m Breaststroke (SB7)
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adidas is encouraging young people in London 2012's Host Boroughs to get involved in sport at free 'adiZones'. So far, five of the giant outdoor multi-sport areas have been created - one in each of London 2012's Host Boroughs.
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On September 17 2008, the Paralympic Games started their journey home to the UK. We staged a fun and inspiring Handover Ceremony in Beijing as the 2008 Paralympic Games closed.
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26-28 September 2008: The Open Weekend marked the start of London's Cultural Olympiad. More than 650 inspiring cultural events were held across the UK.
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As part of the process of getting the Olympic Park site ready, archaeological investigations took place on the sites of the 'big five' permanent venues. This picture shows them at work on the Aquatics Centre site.
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A vast clean-up operation has taken place on the Olympic Park site and almost 200 buildings have been demolished to clear the site for construction.
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Columbia Primary School, Bethnal Green, got involved with the %u2018Welcoming the World%u2019 project to show the world where they lived. Year 4 Emerald Class made a fantastic film shown at the Paralympic Games handover ceremony in Beijing.
<a href="http://getset.london2012.com/your-space/welcoming-the-world">Read more about this work</a>.
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Students from across a School Sport Partnership gathered at Chelmsford Sports and Athletics Centre to hear from a top athlete, take part in a range of Paralympic sports, see a gymnastics display and watch the Handover ceremony live from Beijing.
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In 2012, the Olympic Village will be home to over 14,000 athletes and officials during the Olympic Games and 4,200 during the Paralympic Games. They will find everything they need while they are there.
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Every year until 2012, Lloyds TSB will be providing support to 250 young athletes based in communities around the UK. The programme, called Local Heroes, aims to help participants on the journey to London 2012 and beyond. It was launched by GB Olympic Champion Jonathan Edwards on London's Millennium Bridge.
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London became the next Summer Olympic Games Host City on 24 August 2008, when the Beijing 2008 Games closed. Millions of people around the UK joined together to celebrate London becoming the official Host City for the Summer Olympic Games.
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Team GB enjoyed record-breaking success at the Beijing Olympic Games. This map shows how the gold medals were won - and where our new Olympic champions come from in the UK.
Congratulations to all our silver and bronze medallists too!
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Young Ambassador Hannah, from Chase Terrace Technology College has been doing a fantastic job of organising sports festivals for pupils from right across Burntwood.
In July 2008 Hannah organised a multi sport festival based on the Olympic and Paralympic Values. She involved more than 200 students of all ages. This year she is planning to invite local primary school children to a 'Dance Factor' event!
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Proving that learners with Special Educational Needs don't always need things done for them, ten students from Wilson Stuart School organised a sports festival for children in their local mainstream primary school.
<a href="http://getset.london2012.com/educators/case-studies/case-study-wilson-stuart-school-and-sports-college">Find out more about how the sports festival was organised</a>.
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The Aquatics Centre (referred to as Aquatics/Water Polo on the application form) will be the venue for Swimming, Diving, Synchronised Swimming and the Aquatics discipline of the Modern Pentathlon during the Olympic Games. It will host Paralympic Swimming during the Paralympic Games. <a href="http://www.london2012.com/games/venues/aquatics-centre.php">Read more about the Aquatics Centre.</a>
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City College Norwich staged a spectacular Wind, Water and Wheels event for the local community outside Chapelfield Shopping Centre in July 2009 as part of the London 2012 Open Weekend.
Students from the College encouraged members of the public to think about their health and fitness, giving visitors and shoppers the opportunity to have their Body Mass Index (BMI) measured, take a handheld body fat test, have their blood pressure tested and undergo a general fitness check. The main emphasis was on having fun and finding out about new activities for a healthier and more active lifestyle!
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As part of the process of getting the Olympic Park site ready, archaeological investigations took place on the sites of the five new permanent venues. This picture shows them at work on the Aquatics Centre site.
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In West London there are a total of 35 Young Leaders from across Surrey, Spelthorne, Hounslow, Hillingdon and Wandsworth.
The Young Leaders will all work with a BP coach recruited from their Sunbury-on-Thames offices.
The Young Leaders will work together to design, develop and implement volunteering projects to benefit their local communities.
The local co-ordinator for West London is Paula Greene
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Twenty young leaders and Young Ambassadors, Reglan and Will, held a Year 4 Multi-skills Festival at Haygrove School in Somerset.
Sixty pupils from six local primary schools took part in eight events including hockey, basketball, tri-golf, hurdles, sprinting and long jump. The pupils' aim was to achieve 1000 points by counting up the amount of baskets they scored, centimetres they jumped, hockey goals, tri-golf points scored and the number of seconds they ran in the sprint and hurdles event!
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Calderglen's motto 'Excellence through Unity' reflects their community ethos and existing links with Sanderson High School, a specialist school for children with additional support needs.
Students also took part in the Bank of Scotland National School Sports Week and the Calderglen Games was another way of helping them find sports they enjoy! The Calderglen Games was planned in conjunction with an event organised by their South African partner School, Mount View High. Students from both schools are involved in a joint leadership development programme supported by the International Inspiration programme.
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Dundonald Primary thoroughly deserved their visit from Olympic Mascot Wenlock after they revamped their sports day to incorporate the Olympic and Paralympic Values and made the day more inclusive.
Wenlock had a great day- he joined a whole school assembly and loved presenting pupils with Values Certificates for living one or more of the Olympic and Paralympic Values on the school sports day. Wenlock later took part in the sports festival- learning judo and cricket and even cheering on dance competitions. He made lots of new friends and had a great time in Northern Ireland!
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In 2012, the Olympic Village will be home to over 14,000 athletes and officials during the Olympic Games and 4,200 during the Paralympic Games. They will find everything they need while they are there.
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Year 11s from Tuxford School started a lunch time rugby club for year 8 pupils and combined it with a 20 minute one-to-one reading lesson. The project has helped to improve reading standards!
Tuxford are sharing their experiences with Colegio Estadual Humberto Mendes in Brazil, who are running a similar project to help their students get better at maths.
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Ellie Simmonds, Paralympic Gold Medallist, visited Long Eaton Secondary School to see its gardening club and sensory garden.
As a part of her visit she also heard about other work the school have done including: inviting the local community to enviornmental days, building a pond to attract water vole and opening their school grounds to the public!
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The London 2012 Olympic Stadium marks the start of a new approach to design and engineering of stadia.
This is an artist's impression of the Stadium at night.
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Students from Matthew Arnold School wanted to create 'The Olympian', a magazine aimed at promoting the Olympic and Paralympic Values. The magazine could aim to raise interest in the London 2012 Games and inspire others to take up sport and get more involved in their local community.
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Track Cyclist Kevin is training six days a week. He has been on the Local Heroes programme since the age of 16 and says the best part of being a cyclist is seeing the hard work pay off.
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The rooms will be fully accessible and take into account other needs – for example, extra long beds for the taller athletes like rowers and handball players.
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Students from across the London Borough gathered as part of a three day Paralympic sports event. They were joined by Paralympians Giles Long and Elaine Barrett and Team Visa Apprentice Natasha Baker who is a 2012 hopeful.
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Get Set was an opportunity to build on existing links with Chadsgrove Special School, a local physical disability school.
Catshill and Chadsgrove's big event has been their 1000 days to go celebration, marking the time left until the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The day included a once in a lifetime opportunity to be joined by double bronze medal-winning Paralympian, Richard White.
Students experienced the excitement of trying out the Paralympic sports of Boccia and Curling and watching a Wheelchair Basketball game
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Ben Rushgrove first got into athletics when he was introduced to the sport by his PE teacher at school. He has broken the 200m world record and is a Paralympic medallist.
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Spurred on by 'Who Do We Think We Are?', Lent Rise Combined School spent one lesson a day for a week exploring their cultural, geographical and personal identities. Children investigated their family trees and discovered interesting family stories.
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The first finds on the Park included a World War II gun emplacement, Roman river walls and this Roman coin. The coin has been dated between AD 330-335, the reign of Emperor Constantine.
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The well-known exhibition centre, which hosts hundreds of international events each year, will be transformed into a 15,000-seat indoor Volleyball arena for the 2012 Games.
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London 2012's 'live sites' show events from the Games and act as a local stage for sporting and cultural activities.
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Newer buildings that had to be removed were dismantled rather than demolished. These steel-framed buildings were taken down by hand and will be reconstructed elsewhere.
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The Basketball Arena will host Basketball and the final stages of the Handball competition during the Olympic Games. Wheelchair Basketball and Wheelchair Rugby will be held here during the Paralympic Games. It is the largest temporary venue in the Olympic Park. <a href="http://www.london2012.com/games/venues/basketball-arena.php">Read more about the Basketball Arena</a>
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In central London, 40,000 people - including record-breaking Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps - watched the Olympic Handover Ceremony as part of a free live concert in the Mall.
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As part of the 'Who Do We Think We Are?' programme, Tong High School worked with Rewind %u2013 an organisation dedicated to exposing the myths around the issues of %u2018race%u2019 and racism. As a result of the project there have been fewer incidents of conflict.
<a href="http://getset.london2012.com/educators/case-studies/educators-case-study-tong-high-school">Find out more about what students from Tong High School have been doing</a>.
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Disaffected students at the Minster School and Escola Conego Olimpio Torres are working on a project to improve their self-confidence, tolerance and team work. At the Minster 24 year 10 and 11 students have started a sports leadership award while in Brazil students have been learning how to referee and how to build sports equipment from recycled materials.
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Archery - Women’s Individual Open Compound
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Women’s 1km Time Trial (B&VI)
Women’s Individual Pursuit (B &VI)
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Southwold Primary School is testing a new system that aims to make the school greener by helping them control their heating better.
The school also has a vegetable garden which double Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell recently helped out in on a visit to promote Green Britain Day.
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Women’s 100m Freestyle (S6)
Women’s 400m Freestyle (S6)
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Mandeville had a fantastic visit to Hereford 6th Form College on 2nd July. The College won their visit following the launch of their Leadership Academy which encourages students to assist with local sporting events in the community. One of their projects is organising and running the Hereford Youth Games- held on the day of Mandeville's special visit! Students worked hard in planning the event to live the Values- they invited all the Primary schools in the County and had over 1,300 pupils attend the day- brilliant! Mandeville enjoyed awarding pledge certificates to pupils and joined in with the warm-up as the children prepared to compete. Over 80 volunteers from surrounding secondary schools and the community helped run the day- an incredible effort.
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16 A level geography students had a behind the scenes tour of the London 2012 Olympic Park. The tour was one of the highlights of a week long geography summer school run by the Royal Geographical Society. This scheme gives students, who have never had such opportunities before, the chance to experience high quality fieldwork.
Harry Mooney from All Saints Catholic School in Dagenham said seeing the site first hand was 'something you don't get to see everyday, how they are building it and the vast scale of it. I felt excited seeing it happen and I'm looking forward to seeing the Games and being able to use the facilities afterwards. I will be able to incorporate this research into my geography studies next year.'
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9 October 2008: Workers help a crane to erect steel seating rakers on the second tier of the Stadium.
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adiZones are free and accessible for all the community to use. There are floodlit basketball, football and tennis facilities, an outdoor gym (pictured), a climbing wall and an open area for dancing and practicing gymnastics.
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Andwinese, a Young Ambassador from Old-field School in Bath, got creative with a team of other students to produce a photo montage of different sporting activities that spanned 1000 hours!
The montage showed a whole range of sports, including dance, athletics, netball, hockey, football, and judo, with back and white sporting images used to highlight the number 1000.
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In Stoke Mandeville, where the Paralympic Movement began in 1948, these young people were among thousands who celebrated the Paralympic Handover in schools and colleges around the UK.
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Olympic Champions including Marlon Devonish (pictured) launched the Open Weekend by running through the Tate Britain gallery in London to form part of a work of performance art.
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The Young Leaders from East London are all recruited from the five host Olympic and Paralympic Boroughs. In total there are 35 Young Leaders from each of the 5 host Boroughs, (Newham, Hackney, Waltham Forest, Hounslow, Tower Hamlets.)
The Young Leaders will work together to design, develop and implement volunteering projects designed to benefit their local communities.
The local co-ordinator for East London is Simon Stevens
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A whole team of Young Ambassadors, led by Marta, Joshua and Joanna, have been helping children across their Partnership to 'live the Olympic and Paralympic Values'. They have been visiting primary schools and running assemblies, created a Staffordshire Moorlands Sporting Oath which pupils sign up to before any competition, and are even writing their own curriculum pack! <a href="http://getset.london2012.com/assets-uploaded/documents/Staffordshire_YAs.ppt">View their Powerpoint presentation</a>.
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Students from Highcliffe School want to create a swipe card aimed at students in years 7-11. Each student will be given their own personal 'Scan and Play' swipe card which they could use every time they participate in a sport.
This idea earned Highcliffe School third place in the 2008 Make Your Mark Challenge!
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The rooms will be fully accessible and take into account other needs – for example, extra-long beds for the taller athletes like rowers and handball players.
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The first finds on the Park included a World War II gun emplacement, Roman river walls and this Roman coin. The coin has been dated between AD 330-335, the reign of Emperor Constantine.
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Athletes from over 200 competing nations will use the Olympic Stadium during the course of the 2012 Games.
Over one million people will visit the Stadium to watch the action.
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Multiple World Champion and Olympic Games gold and silver medallist, Chris Hoy was photographed in the grounds of Edinburgh Castle, in the city where he was born and started cycling aged seven on a BMX.
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Stratford Regional Station will be the main gateway to the Olympic Park - an estimated 120,000 people will use it each morning during the busiest days of the Games. We are investing £100m to upgrade the station, increasing capacity and accessibility.
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Road Cycling, Women's Mass Start.
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Pupils at Magnus Church of England School and Escola Abilio de Souza Barbosa have been getting to know adults in their community better. In Nottingham, adults have been helping year 7 pupils with literacy - they've been writing newspaper reports on sports events and even studying famous Brazilian football players! While in Brazil students have taken part in craft, poetry and storytelling workshops led by elderly people.
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During the Games the Stadium will have a total of 80,000 seats in the upper and lower tiers. After the Games, the upper tier will be removed leaving 25,000 seats.
This picture shows each of the sections in the design.
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Kesgrave started their green campaign by improving the woodland area in its school grounds.
Now students are trying to attract wildlife such as otters, bats and birds. The school have also made stag beetle pyramids and started recycling all its waste to use as compost in the woodland area.
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Young people from schools all over Tower Hamlets came together at Mile End Stadium to take part in sports taster sessions and welcome the Paralympic Games to London.
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This large junior school in the South West has incorporated some of the Olympic and Paralympic Values into the School Development Plan and is using them to help achieve key school objectives.
<a href="http://getset.london2012.com/educators/case-studies/educators-case-study-sedgemoor-manor-junior-school-sdp">Find out more about what children at Sedgemoore Manor Junior School have been doing</a>.
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Aged seven, Tom started diving in Plymouth Hoe, where he is pictured. Just six years later, he won gold at the 2008 European Championships. Now aged 14, Tom reached the final in the 10m platform in Beijing.
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The 3rd Gidea Park Scouts were camping at Kandersteg International Scout Centre in Switzerland. 1 August is Swiss National Day and as part of the celebrations they ran a stall to highlight that the Games are coming to London in 2012.
They translated 2012 news stories into French, German, Italian and Dutch so that visitors to their stand could read about London 2012 as they queued to collect pin badges for their own nation's Olympic team.
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There are 10 Young Leaders from Hull and East Riding. They will be supported by coaches from BP's Hull offices.
The Young Leaders will work together to design, develop and implement volunteering projects designed to benefit their local communities.
The local co-ordinator for Hull is Cheryl Greene.
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Born in Stratford, Christine Ohuruogu grew up less than a mile from the main London 2012 site. Pictured at Stratford Underground station, Christine is the reigning 400m World and Commonwealth Champion.
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Dorney Lake, near Windsor Castle, is a purpose-built international Rowing venue. It hosted the 2006 World Championships and, after further improvement works, will welcome up to 30,000 spectators to the Rowing and Flatwater Canoe/Kayak events in 2012.
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'True London Tours' won students from John Hampden Grammar School top honours and first palce in the 2008 Make Your Mark Challenge!
Their winning idea focuses on training homeless people to provide an Olympic tour service in London. These tour guides could work at stalls across the capital, providing directions and guided tours. Sales of maps and memorabilia might bring in extra revenue.
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Amy is working towards competing in her second World Age Group Championships in Trampoline - a discipline of Gymnastics. She's been part of the Local Heroes programme since the age of 12.
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Richmond upon Thames decided to offer its students a volunteering programme. This included opportunities to train, support, and deploy young people into sports leadership and volunteering.
<a href="http://getset.london2012.com/educators/case-studies/educators-case-study-richmond-upon-thames-college">Find out more about this project</a>.
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Mandeville visited Lasswade High School Centre on June 29th after the school won the Mascot visit for using Olympic and Paralympic sports as an avenue to deliver the Values of respect, friendship and excellence. Mandeville awarded certificates and prizes to students who have helped promote the Values; he also enjoyed watching a special judo presentation by students which demonstrated the Value of Respect, and also had a chance to meet students who have achieved excellence in sport. What a great day!
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Athletics - Men’s 800m (T54)
Men’s 1500m (T54)
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At adiZones, all the equipment is hard-wearing so the sites can stay open every day of the year. Young people in Beckton are already getting to grips with the new facilities.
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During the London 2012 Games, the high speed Javelin® service will get spectators from Kings Cross St. Pancras to Stratford International Station in just seven minutes.
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Young people from Inveralmond Community High School marked the Paralympic Handover with a special Paralympic Flag relay.
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Our network of 'live sites', including this one in Plymouth, is funded by our partners BT and Lloyds TSB as well as the National Lottery.
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Men’s Individual Pursuit (CP3)
Men’s 1km Time Trial (CP3)
Men’s Team Sprint (LC1-4/ CP3/4)
Men’s Individual Road Race (LC3/4 and CP3)
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The Cultural Olympiad launch celebrations spread across the UK. In Dover, fireworks lit up the harbour as part of a spectacular sound and lights show that told the story of the town.
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Young Ambassadors in the Links School Sport Partnership in Sheffield have been promoting the 2012 Games!
They introduced all the schools in their partnership to Get Set and the Olympic and Paralympic Values. To help get children excited, the Ambassadors ran a t-shirt competition and challenged primary classes to design a t-shirt which reflected the Values and showed what the Olympic and Paralympic Games means to them.
The winning design was printed onto t-shirts and given to the winning class!
Now the Young Ambassadors have moved onto their next project, which is based on playground leadership - stay tuned to find out how it goes!
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Thousands of people gathered to watch the Olympic Handover Ceremony on giant screens at 'Live Sites' around the UK - such as this one in Weymouth, the London 2012 venue for Sailing. The crowds enjoyed a range of sport and cultural activities as part of UK-wide celebrations.
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Swimming, Women's 400m Freestyle / Swimming, Women's 800m Freestyle.
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Men’s 100m Freestyle (S7)
Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay (34 points)
Men’s 50m Freestyle (S7)
Men's 400m Freestyle (S7)
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The City of Coventry Stadium is home to Championship club Coventry City and will co-host the Football competition alongside Wembley Stadium, Old Trafford, Millennium Stadium, St James' Park and Hampden Park during the Olympic Games. <a href="http://www.london2012.com/games/venues/city-of-coventry-stadium.php">Read more about The City of Coventry Stadium</a>
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A 5,000 seat dining room will serve food catering to all tastes and dietary needs, throughout the day. Plus there will be more informal places to eat, including cafes.
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Viewed from the air, this archaeological trench near the Olympic Stadium was the location of another find. The trench revealed a complete 19th century boat, thought to be used for hunting wild fowl on the River Lea.
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9 October 2008: Workers beside a steel seating raker for the second tier of the Stadium.
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Young Ambassadors at the Wey Valley School and Sports college in Weymouth are counting down the days until the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games!
Each week the Young Ambassadors are finding out a new fact about the Games and displaying it on the countdown board in the main reception of the school.
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Viewed from the air, this archaeological trench near the Olympic Stadium was the location of another find. The trench revealed a complete 19th century boat, thought to be used for hunting wild fowl on the River Lea.
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Students have designed and created an exciting range of Olympic and Paralympic Values-inspired merchandise, including phone charms, bracelets, t-shirts, balls, badges and novelty bags, all aimed at the teenage market.
A Games book of records has been compiled with active involvement by all tutor groups. Focusing on individual countries, the pages show everything from the country's flag to famous Olympians and even scores based on the Values.
Fairfax also looks forward to its Olympic-themed Enterprise Focus Week, feeling determined that students will experience Olympic Fever during that week even if they haven't before!