The olympic legacy

Frank the tank
Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
edited August 2012 in The cake stop
It was on my local news last night that Harvey Haddon, the home of Notts AC are having the indoor training facility shut down by the council to save money. :oops: :roll: :evil:
Tail end Charlie

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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    I think it's been closed for a while.

    My son was there taking photos for a sporting event at the out door track and we shocked to see what looks like a fairly modern building closed up and unused that particular weekend (mid May).


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  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    did Nottingham hold the Olympics?
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  • -spider-
    -spider- Posts: 2,548
    spen666 wrote:
    did Nottingham hold the Olympics?

    No - but they paid for it.
    -Spider-
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    spen666 wrote:
    did Nottingham hold the Olympics?

    Good point fella.

    I thought the slogan was INSPIRE A GENERATION not INSPIRE A GENRATION IN THE SOUTH EAST. :evil:
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  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    -spider- wrote:
    spen666 wrote:
    did Nottingham hold the Olympics?

    No - but they paid for it.

    Hear,here.
    Tail end Charlie

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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    One good thing - we get to see more C Balding.


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  • Mad Doug Biker
    Mad Doug Biker Posts: 31
    I'm just looking forward to The Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome here in Glasgow!

    Not much use for the people of Nottingham though, I admit, and to be fair, that is for the Commonwealths anyway! :D
  • Tom Dean
    Tom Dean Posts: 1,723
    Frank the tank wrote:
    -spider- wrote:
    spen666 wrote:
    did Nottingham hold the Olympics?

    No - but they paid for it.

    Hear,here.

    Sorry to hear London is such a drain on the Notts economy.
  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    I hate to tell you, but the 2012 Olympics were awarded to LONDOn, not to nottingham, notr to GB nor the UK nor England, but to LONDON and only London
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    spen666 wrote:
    I hate to tell you, but the 2012 Olympics were awarded to LONDOn, not to nottingham, notr to GB nor the UK nor England, but to LONDON and only London
    I hate to tell you but not only London paid for it.

    It wasn't London only venues.

    It wasn't london only competitors.

    Like it or not, the Country needs London. London needs the rest of the Country.

    London for independance! :twisted:
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  • Ron Stuart
    Ron Stuart Posts: 1,242
    Frank the tank wrote:
    spen666 wrote:
    did Nottingham hold the Olympics?

    Good point fella.

    I thought the slogan was INSPIRE A GENERATION not INSPIRE A GENRATION IN THE SOUTH EAST. :evil:

    even better point fella!
  • Ron Stuart
    Ron Stuart Posts: 1,242
    Didn't take long for the gaps to appear again then :(
  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    The track's been derelict for years, it was resurfaced once, bodged, the surface was too soft.
    Until Derby's velodrome gets built (If it does!), then Midlanders are reduced to using Forest Town's museum piece, or travel to Manchester or London.
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  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    Ahh yes, those cuts to sports funding and a shifty change to the policy on school playing fields...

    The weeds are growing in Stratford...

    And London? I think we'd learn to live without it. One day Old father Thames and a North Sea storm surge may force us to...
  • Tom Dean
    Tom Dean Posts: 1,723
    Frank the tank wrote:
    spen666 wrote:
    did Nottingham hold the Olympics?

    Good point fella.

    I thought the slogan was INSPIRE A GENERATION not INSPIRE A GENRATION IN THE SOUTH EAST. :evil:

    Public services are being cut all across the country, including London. Nothing to do with the olympics.
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    Tom Dean wrote:
    Frank the tank wrote:
    spen666 wrote:
    did Nottingham hold the Olympics?

    Good point fella.

    I thought the slogan was INSPIRE A GENERATION not INSPIRE A GENRATION IN THE SOUTH EAST. :evil:

    Public services are being cut all across the country, including London. Nothing to do with the olympics.

    I know. However, is it not rank hypocrisy to be coming out with all this guff about galvanizing the next generation of potential athletes whilst closing sporting facilities and relaxing the rules on school playing fields.

    Good lord, they must thin we all came down with the last shower.
    Tail end Charlie

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  • Tom Dean
    Tom Dean Posts: 1,723
    Yup. We're all in this together etc...
  • AndyRubio
    AndyRubio Posts: 880
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    One good thing - we get to see more C Balding.
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