London 2012 blog

I had the pleasure of attending the Get Set London roadshow which was taking place in the middle of the Whitgift Shopping Centre in Croydon all day on Thursday. As one of the team behind the Croydon Harriers Athletics Club, the fact that the Games is coming to London means a lot to me because it is so important to get young people interested in sport these days. Anything to promote sport is, in my eyes, good for the country and many people were able to see it while they were out shopping and on a break from work and Croydon College.

The younger people especially loved the sporting equipment there for them to try – one group came back repeatedly to challenge each other on the ‘batak’ and another group of about 12 squeezed onto the seats to have their picture taken. They were capitalising on every opportunity! One young man tested his grip strength and had 67 – the male average is about 40 apparently and a young girl had a strength of 37, when most women score about 25.

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