You get a London 2012 hooded top and a TT$500 gift certificate if you're lucky enough to find one of the 100 red, white and blue balloons released yesterday by the British High Commission.
British High Commissioner Arthur Snell yesterday marked the 100-day countdown to the 2012 London Olympic Games with the release of the balloons, at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain. The event also consisted of a series of fun races involving children from the International Olympic Programme and members of locally-based diplomatic missions representative of some of the countries that had previously hosted the Olympic Games.
The event saw 26 teenagers simulating the Olympic Games opening ceremony march past--even a torch, carried by Shaquille Roberts, Trinidad and Tobago's London 2012 torch bearer.
During the ceremony, Snell boasted of the London Olympics being on budget and on time.
"It will be a classic Olympic Games. London is a global city and it is hard to imagine anywhere more appropriate to stage this event," the High Commissioner declared.
Snell added that the 2012 Olympics was not just about sport, but would leave a lasting legacy to London residents.
Snell said that the coming of the Olympics had led to great development in some of the traditionally neglected areas of East London. As part of the Olympic build-up, he continued, an International Inspirational Programme had been launched, and it had already touched 12 million people, including some in T&T.
-Ian Prescott
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