Olympic handover flag
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic
Games recently announced that an Olympic Handover Flag will
be raised on Sunday 24 August at Cheshunt Park Golf Course, Park
Lane, Cheshunt to celebrate the moment when London becomes the
official Olympic Games host.
The London Olympic Handover Flag will be
raised in Cheshunt by the Mayor of the Borough of Broxbourne,
Councillor Mrs Carol Crump-Eynon and local sports stars. This
will happen at the same time as flags are raised in other regions
around the UK. The flag raising event will finish a week of
sports and cultural activities which have been organised by
Broxbourne Council and the Active Broxbourne Community Sport
Network, to celebrate the Beijing Olympics and the handover to
London.
Broxbourne will be one of the locations for
the 2012 Olympics, with the white water slalom course to be built
at Lea Valley Showground in Waltham Cross, if planning permission
is granted and the scheme is subsequently built. Olympic
Handover Flags will be raised at landmark areas such as the Unst in
the Shetland Isles, the most northerly point in the UK, and Land’s
End in Cornwall, the most southerly point. Flags will also be
raised at Lowestoft, the most easterly town in England and the
Isles of Scilly, the most westerly point.
Chairman of the London 2012 Organising
Committee, Sebastian Coe said: ‘When the Mayor of London accepts
the Olympic Flag on 24 August, the eyes of the world will turn to
London and the UK as the next summer host city. It is very
important and exciting moment for us, and we want as many people as
possible to join in the Handover celebrations. We are
delighted that so many local authorities share our excitement and
are proudly displaying the Olympic Handover Flag to mark this very
special moment on our journey to 2012.”