POSTED: February 12th 2009
NewsUpdate
Team GB stampeding back
KEIR RADNEDGE / Sports Features Communications
VANCOUVER: Calgary will once more be Team GB's preparation camp ahead of the Winter Olympics.
The British Olympic Association decided in favour of the province of Alberta’s largest city on grounds of quality and proximity of venues, facilities for all winter Olympic sport training and transport links to Vancouver which hosts the 2010 Games.
Team GB is likely to consist of approximately 50 athletes across six sports (biathlon, bobsleigh, curling, luge, skating and skiing).
BOA chief executive Andy Hunt said: “In Calgary we can profit from the great venues and facilitates used during the Calgary 1988 Olympic Winter Games and we know the area well. We are confident that it can deliver what we need to allow Team GB to go into the Games as the best prepared team possible.
“We have had some fantastic results from several of our winter sport athletes in 2008 and our statistics show that if the Games had been last year, Team GB would have moved from 21st position in the medal table in Turin to 12th in 2008.”
Shelly Rudman, Amy Williams and Kristan Bromley have recently collected medals in world and European bob skeleton championships and cups, Jon Eley won silver in the 500m short track speed skating world cup, snowboarder Zoe Gillings took a World Cup bronze and the Kerr partership won bronze in the European figure skating championships.
The 2010 Winter Games take place from February 12-28 in Vancouver and Whistler in Canada.
Keywords · Winter Olympics 2010 · Vancouver · Team GB · BOA · Hunt
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