Seb Coe and Jeremy Hunt visit Medway Park
Lord
Sebastian Coe and Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt visited Medway Park
as part of a nationwide tour to promote the National School
Games.
Local school children were able to show off their sporting
skills to the London 2012 Chairman and the Secretary of State for
Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, who were also given a tour of
Medway's £11m centre of sporting excellence.
Mr Hunt said: “The facilities at Medway Park are excellent, what
better advert for the kind of legacy the London 2012 can
create.”
The National School Games willl be held for the first time
next year to coincide with the Olympics coming to the UK. Its
aim is to transform competitive sport in schools and get more
young people aged four to 16 active.
The Games are open to all schools with three levels of
competition; class vs class, school vs school and then county-wide
sports festivals. The
Medway Games and Kent School Games provide the inter-school and
county-wide element of the programme.
The national finals will be held at the Olympic Park
in London. Schools have until the end of the year to sign up.
Olympic gold medallist Lord Coe told the Medway
Messenger: “The School Games is a fantastic opportunity
for young people to be inspired by sport. It is great to see so
many schools already signed up and I look forward to seeing
them achieving their personal bests and cheering on their
teammates in the Olympic Park venues."
Mr Hunt added: "This is what the Olympic dream was when Lord Coe
helped to win the Olympic Games for London. The dream was to create
a sporting legacy for young people."
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