Andrew was at Lord’s today to meet GB archers Alison Williamson and Simon Terry and to shoot some arrows at targets on the pitch.

Andrew said: “Lord’s will be a first class venue for Archery at the London 2012 Olympic Games, just as it is for cricket. I am very excited at the prospect of watching Archery in such as spectacular setting, and it will be great for the profile of Lord’s to be part of such an historic event.” 

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The London 2012 Organising Committee today unveiled plans of what the Archery venue could look like in 2012. Download pictures

A planning application for its plans to convert Lord’s into an Olympic Archery venue will be submitted to Westminster Council in May and LOCOG is about to begin a public consultation process to seek the views of local residents and MCC members, with a public exhibition in the President’s Box at Lord’s from 25-27 March.

Sebastian Coe, LOCOG Chair, said: “Lord’s is an exciting and important location for the London 2012 Games. It is a world-class venue, and will provide a spectacular and innovative setting for Olympic Archery. I am proud of the fact that we are using so many of London’s existing venues, and Lord’s is one of the most iconic.”

The existing layout and facilities of Lord’s will be used, including the Pavilion and the Media Centre. In addition, some temporary structures such as seating will be installed to enable spectators to get closer to the action.  The field of play will be positioned so that the archers will shoot from the historic Pavilion over the square towards the media centre.

There will be eight days of competition, two team events, two individual events, with 64 men and 64 women archers taking part. There will be approximately 5000 spectators per session.

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Note to editors:
The public exhibition is in the President’s Box at Lord’s Cricket Ground via the Grace Gate (St John’s Wood Road) or the North Gate (Wellington Road) on: Thursday 25^th March 4-8pm; Friday 26^th March 12 noon-4pm, Saturday 27^th March 11am-3pm. The public can also go online at london2012.com/lords consultation, call on Freephone 0800 198 2012 or write to LOCOG at FREEPOST 2012 Games.

As it heads towards its £2bn budget for staging the Olympic and Paralympic Games, LOCOG has seven domestic Tier One Partners - adidas, BMW, BP, British Airways, BT, EDF and Lloyds TSB. There are six domestic Tier Two Supporters – Adecco, Cadbury, Cisco, Deloitte, Thomas Cook and UPS. There are now fourteen domestic Tier Three Suppliers and Providers – Airwave, Atkins, Boston Consulting Group, Crystal CG, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, GSK, Holiday Inn, John Lewis, McCann Worldgroup, Next, The Nielsen Company, Populous, Ticketmaster and Trident.

The Worldwide Olympic Partners signed up for London 2012 are Coca-Cola, Acer, Atos Origin, GE, McDonald’s, Omega, Panasonic, Samsung and Visa.