London 2012 blog

I represented LOCOG at one of the ODA’s Olympic Park tours for MPs this morning. Getting the MPs all together at Stratford station was, well, a little tricky, but they were soon on the bus and in the Park, to see the building work first hand and at close range. 

But it’s only when you step back and view the whole Park (such as from the ODA’s 6th floor viewing flat, just outside the Park boundary) that you get a better feel for the size of the site, which is bigger than Hyde Park. From the balcony the MPs were understandably - and predictably – quite taken by the sheer scale of the project. All the areas we saw were teeming with builders and diggers all beavering away on the different venue sites. 

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Last Sunday was a great day down at the Rise festival in Finsbury Park - the sun was shining and we treated festival goers to a colourful Bollywood dance show. Ten of our group showcased a number of routines comprising traditional Bollywood dance moves as well eastern influenced techniques to our favourite tracks.

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Lots of team days/events/things come and go and you find yourself thinking, here we go again. Our team building event at the weekend has quite happily changed my mind. We had temps to cover the reception, we had tickets and lots of energy and we were ready to go to St Pancras by 12 noon!

A pleasant journey up to be had gazing at some beautiful english countryside relaxed us nicely. We all got together in the evening for our team dinner to set out our plans for the next day and have a team ice breaker with some fun 'truth' questions put to us anonymously by others. This was a great way to see how team mates viewed each other.
Next day in the lobby and we were getting excited….time to go to Holme Pierrepoint in Nottingham which is home to the National Rafting Centre, a simple 15 minute taxi ride from the centre of town. Once we arrived, it was quite a quick process, get our wetsuits, get a quick briefing and off we go down the rapids! You go down the rapids 4 times but what we did not count on was having to get out at the bottom, carry our boat quite a distance back up the bank and then jumping in again and paddling all the way back to the start!

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