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The new London 2012 mascots have been released and there are mixed feelings about them. Many people hoped for a British bulldog or a lion but the designers for the mascots moved away from animals and came up with a totally new idea.

The new mascots have been named Wenlock and Mandeville. They start out there life as just bit of wasted steal however they are taken home and cast into characters then magicly they come alive.

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And there are reports that 96% of these people are UK citizens

View the full story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8647255.stm

There is a Div 3 / 4 Slalom event on the River Loddon at Readng on the 2nd / 3rd May 2010, we will not be attending this event as a club but you may borrow equipment and go to this event.

Tuesday evening is the 2nd round of the Harefield Summer Series of Marathon style races which HYM COPS are currently leading (info attached).

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This course gives a real in site to what the new Broxbourne course will look like.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8641500.stm

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A day for all the family to come down to Herts Young Mariners Base for a day of free activities all day long. Come along and have a go at: Sailing, Canoeing, Kayaking, ClimbWell Its Here Again HYMB OPEN DAY2 4th APRIL 10 HYMB’s open day. a day for all the family to come down to Herts Young Mariners Base for a day of free activities all day long. Come along and have a go at: Sailing, Canoeing, Kayaking, Climbing, [...]ing, [...]

you need to be over the age of 9 and if your under 18 you must have a parent permission slip field in which can be done on the day

the day start at 10 and there is no limit to the amount of activities you can do

Course structures complete.

Summer 2010

Slalom courses running and facility building complete.

Lake complete and filled.

Autumn 2010

Slalom courses commissioned and external landscaping complete.

Spring 2011

Centre opens to the public.

Summer 2012

Centre closes to the public for olympic games.

Spring 2013

Centre reopens to the public.

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last year there was 150,000 cubic metres of soil required to build up the 5.5m start pull walls, and to build the lake. There is now more then 500 piles now ready for the construction of the building this month.

The lake is due to be completed during the summer of 2010. It is planned to be concrete based with concreted sandbags forming the banks and walls.

The 300m Olympic course is also taking shape alone the western side of the centre. the earthworks are due to finish on the Olympic course early this year ready for concreting and the Olympic course is due to be completed in the summer of 2010.

The 160m intermediate course is also on schedule and earthworks are due to finish in the next few months ready for concreting and completion in the summer of 2010.

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Broxbourne white water canoe centre is on course to be open for public use in spring of 2011. The ground works are well under way and the foundations of the building have been completed. BWWCC will be the only brand new olympic venue to be open to the public before the olympic games in 2012. They have worked to make it not only the most depanding course in the world but the best training base for white water aswell.

Theres a new information site at YHA Lee Valley which is around 20 minite walk away from the site. this is a drop in centre and has loads of information about the new site.

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Great news for all us watersports lovers. Brookbank Canoes and Kayaks has just opened a store up meters away from the site of the new white water canoe centre. this will bring many more people to the sport we love as they wont have to traval miles to find the right gear.

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Yesterday I took part in some wild water training at Cardington, We had national team coach’s down to supports us with what we was doing and to give us some tips on what we could do to improve are stork, and times. we managed to get the white water course for a few hours and this helped us improve even further.

The day was a great event and had three different workshops. these were forward paddling technique, Turing on moving water and down water paddling.

Each of these workshops really helped my paddling as it made me think about what I was doing more.

At the end of the day the national team coach’s organized a race. The race was navigation down the white water course in the quickest time. I came first in the race with a time of 55 seconds and 2nd place came in with 59.

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