Focus on the Games
Before summer 2005 the idea that the Olympic Games might come to Dorset was
little more than a dream.
On July 6, 2005, though, that dream became very much a reality, with the
announcement that London had won the bid for the 2012 Games - and that the
sailing events would be happening at Weymouth and Portland.
The venue for the world's Olympic sailors will be the Weymouth and Portland
National Sailing Academy - a multi-million-pound project which was already
nearing completion before there was serious talk of a successful Olympic
bid. Even without the Olympics it was set to establish Weymouth and Portland
as one of the major centres in the UK for competitive sailing.
The 2012 Games has put extra impetus behind that development, with
additional facilities already planned. Olympic sailing squads from all
nations will be practising and training in the waters of Weymouth Bay in the
years leading up to 2012.
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