Hugh Robertson launches 2012 SE Pre Games Training Camps guide at Stoke Mandeville

Hugh Robertson, MP for Faversham and Mid Kent and Shadow Sports and Olympics Minister, is launching the 2012 South East Pre Games Training Camps guide at Stoke Mandeville at lunchtime today.

Hugh will be joined by Lord Coe, Chairman of LOCOG and Danny Crates, a Paralympic athlete.

The event will highlight the fact that 130 facilities across the SE have been included in the guide – the highest of any UK region. The guide will be launched at the Beijing Games and every facility that attracts a pre Games training camp will be eligible for a grant of £25,000 from LOCOG.

Hugh said, “As a Kent MP, it is a particular pleasure both to launch this guide and to see so many facilities across the South East measuring up to the exacting standards required for a pre Olympic Games training camp. I hope that many of these facilities will go on to host visiting teams before the London Games and that it will be the start of long associations between the towns and countries concerned. It is also an excellent way to encourage more people to take up sport.”