15 July 2010
The Gambian Olympic team will train in York prior to the London 2012 Olympics. The Executive Director of the Gambian Olympic Committee, Lawrence Bruce, was in York last month to sign an agreement at the city’s Mansion House and also take a tour of the city’s facilities including Huntington Stadium, York College, University of York and York Community Gymnastics Club.
Gambia made its Olympic debut at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, and at the last Olympics in Beijing there were three participants from The Gambia, two sprinters and a boxer, but the country has yet to win its first medal.
York is hoping to sign up other West African nations to its training camp including Senegal, Burkino Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Guinea and Niger.
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