Olympic Trials at the weekend

Monday 25th June 2012

It was a very exciting and nervous time for the GB Athletes who needed to guarantee themselves a place at the Olympics next month. The atmosphere was electric.. Leading these guys out on the track gives you a great buzz..

Me with Shara Proctor who broke the British Long jump competition with a third round jump of 6.95m and secured an Olympic spot. 

Athletes who qualified for 2012 this weekend:  Margaret Adeoye with coach Linford Christie  


WOMEN

• Sophie Hitchon (Hammer)
• Christine Ohuruogu, Shana Cox (400m)
• Tiffany Porter, Jessica Ennis* (100m hurdles)
• Shara Proctor (long jump)
• Goldie Sayers (javelin)
• Perri Shakes-Drayton, Eilidh Child (400m hurdles)       
• Eilish McColgan (3,000m steeplechase)
• Laura Weightman (1,500m)
• Holly Bleasdale, Kate Dennison (pole vault)
• Jo Pavey (5,000m)
• Margaret Adeoye, Anyika Onuora (200m)                                                                                                                                           

MEN                                                                                                                    

• Steve Lewis (pole vault)
• Greg Rutherford (long jump)
• Dai Greene, Jack Green (400m hurdles)
• Andy Baddeley, Ross Murray (1,500m)
• Adam Gemili (100m)
• Robbie Grabarz (high jump)
• Nick McCormick (5,000m)
• Martyn Rooney, Conrad Williams (400m)
• James Ellington, Christian Malcolm (200m)
• Lawrence Okoye (discus)
• Andrew Osagie (800m)
• Andrew Pozzi, Lawrence Clarke (110m hurdles) 

Team Coordinator for Team GB

Monday 25th June

The best Birthday present I could have wished for on Thursday, whilst training at the Olympic Village was to be selected as a Team Coordinator for Team GB. I am really looking forward to my role at the Olympics.

Check out the mobile phones every one of the Games Makers have been given to use .

  

Olympic Village

25th June 2012


 Athletes Village                                                   Olympic spirit - By Anna Chromy

The Olympic Athletes Village is now really and from the outside looks fantastic.I had the pleasure of seeing this before the village opens on the 15th July.All I can say is WOW, Amazing....
We have now been briefed on everything we need to know and learn ahead of our start day on the 9th July.I cannot wait to start my first day inside this village.

Meet Team GB Chef De Mission

12th June 2012


Meet Andy Hunt the GB 2012 Chef De Mission, who I will be working closely with at the 2012 Olympics.

Myself and 11 other Assistants will be looking after 550 Athletes and delegates over 26 Olympic Events with Andy.

'Andy is CEO of the British Olympic Association (BOA), the National Olympic Committee for Great Britain & Northern Ireland. Andy joined the BOA in November 2008 and is a Director of the London Organising Committee for the 2012 Olympic Games (LOCOG). He is Team GB Chef De Mission for the London 2012 Olympic Games, a role he also fulfilled at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games'.

Take a look at the 2012 Kit Team GB will be wearing this summer.

Driver Trainning

14th May 2012

Just an update on the Olympic driver training yesterday, it was a 10 hour meeting and driving assessment.

We had the main presentation regarding where the cars will be kept, health and safety, who we would be driving, anyone from press, media, athletes, coaches, officials, Chef De Missions, Guests etc.

BP will provide the fuel as they are the sponsors, therefore we will have a free petrol card to fill up as and when.

At present London are in the process of marking out the routes for the Olympic venues on the roads, which will mean only LOGOC will be able to drive in these lanes, at no time will buses or taxis be able to use it, which will make the routes easier for us to drive to and from the venues.

The cars are equipped with Satnav and a special Olympic Route devise has been programmed into each vehicle. There is special tracking on the cars and a special SOS button should anything untoward happen, which is linked up to the police. Apparently once the button is pressed you will have a swarm of armed police surrounding the car to protect against any harmful events.

There were 2 people to a car with the instructor, and we had to take turns to drive the different routes, a great experience for me as I have never driven in the city of London.

I believe the next part of our driving will be to take the cars out on our own next time to get used to the routes even more, I will keep you informed on this.

Olympic Uniform

23rd April Olympic Uniform Collection

As promised pictures of the new Olympic Uniform that the Games Makers

will be wearing during the Games. I am sure you will agree this is a fantastic looking Uniform and plenty of Purple...

Buzzing with excitement

10 May 2012

I am buzzing with excitement! I had my 5^th Module training this afternoon, where we are told what countries we would be assigned to.

Guess who I will be assigned to? No other than our own GBR, as you may guess I am a little giddy right now. There are 12 Games Makers that are assigned to team GB, with an estimated team size of 754, so not many stressed athletes to look after!

The good news is that there is another Kraft Employee Andy Swift who will be joining me looking after Team GB.

Most of the Games Makers already know who they are assigned to now, from what I already know, someone has been assigned to New Zealand, another one Bahamas, and the US Virgin Islands..

So as you can see things are starting to hot up nicely now. I have my Driving Course to go on this Sunday, which is a full day 8.30am – 6pm. The second course for me is 9^th June. 

We will then have venue training, I am not sure if it is the same weekend yet as the British Olympic Trials which I will be involved in, as they have just changed the dates.

My first day will start on the 9^th July and I will be there until the 15^th August.