Kitted out

BRITAIN’S Olympic contenders for the home Games had a ‘fun and proud’ day collecting their official kit from Loughborough University.

The Match Race Girls posted this dazzling picture of themselves on their Facebook page and captioned it: “2012 games kit... Honest!”

Windsurfer Nick Dempsey said he was ‘feeling very Olympic’ as he posed with his fellow teammate Olympic Laser champion Paul Goodison.

Dempsey posted an album of photos on his Nick Dempsey Windsurfing Facebook page and wrote: “Cool day collecting my team kit at Loughborough.”

Over the next few weeks, 550 athletes will pass through Team GB’s Loughborough University preparation camp, and between them will be distributed 175,000 pieces of Adidas kit and 87,000 items of Next formalwear’.

Family time

A FREE family activity session is taking place this Saturday, June 23, at the Weymouth’s Waterside Community Centre.

From 10am until 3pm, residents and visitors of all ages are welcome to dust off their tools and help build three more model boats that will sit along the Weymouth seafront during the Olympics.

A final ‘Let’s make it!’ driftwood boat-making sessions will be taking place on Saturday, June 30 at Weymouth’s Waterside Community Centre, the same times as before.

Artist Jenny Frances said: “We have made seven driftwood boats so far, which are looking amazing but we need to reach 10.”

To find out more email letsmakeitproject@hotmail.co.uk or visit jenniferfrances.co. uk/olympic_arts.htm

Tickets

TICKETS are still available for the Olympic sailing medal races.

The London 2012 Games will mark the first time in Olympic history that the sport of sailing has had a ticketed event.

The official spectator site will be hosted in the Nothe Gardens, Weymouth.

The remaining tickets cost £55 and are available for on Thursday August 9, Friday August 10 and Saturday August 11 for the Men’s 470 dinghy, Women’s 470 and Match Racing finals.

Search for the events online at the website tickets.london 2012.com