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Get Involved - London 2012
18th March 2010 11:30
Many business professionals around the region woke up early and attended our first Cranfield breakfast event on Tuesday 16 March 2010. The attendance numbers were high and I would like to think this was to see both Tony and my starring role behind the mic; but in reality the main draw was to listen to the experiences of David Moorcroft OBE.
The purpose of the event was to launch Cranfield’s sponsorship of Katrina Wootton who is a promising locally based athlete and to increase awareness of how businesses across the region can become involved with the Olympic Games in 2012.
I have had the pleasure of getting to know Katrina over the past few months and during her presentation she highlighted the complete and unending commitment needed to even be in with a small chance of representing her country at an Olympic Games. Just remember that whilst you are away on holiday this year or enjoying your Christmas dinner in December, the likes of Katrina and every other budding Olympian, will be training hard. I was amazed to hear that in a year’s schedule, there is only one week off!
A special thanks goes to David Moorcroft OBE, undoubtedly a proud Coventarian and an ambassador for athletics. If you’ve not had the chance to listen to David speak, I would highly recommend it and the banana and the condom story had the audience in stitches of laughter!
I think London 2012 will be a once in a life time opportunity to become part of this prestigious event, either as a competitor, a commercial partner or as a spectator. I hope that everyone who attended the breakfast meeting will look at how they can have their own Olympic experience. I was certainly inspired and actually went to the gym the day after the event!
