Summary
IF Lord Coe's vision becomes a reality, then in a few years you will barely be able to walk through a park or field in Scotland without bumping into kids trying to emulate their sporting heroes. Coe, chairman of the London 2012 Olympic Games, was in Scotland yesterday to meet young athletes ahead of the International Children's Games taking place this week in Lanarkshire, and to check on the progress being made in Glasgow ahead of the Commonwealth Games in 2014.
Mass participation in the likes of cycling, ice skating, field hockey, and track and field events tends to last for the length of a major event before quickly fading, but Coe believes the unique situation of having the Olympics and Commonwealth Games in the UK just two years apart should help sustain interest in so-called minority sports for a greater period of time. Having successful role models to look up to will play its part, too, as Coe reveals from personal experience.See the full content of this document
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Coe Urges Glasgow to Ride Momentum of London 2012
"If you go back to the Commonwealth Games of Edinburgh in 1970 that was an extraordinary opportunity," he enthused amid the hubbub of Glasgow's...
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