Olympic handover flag raised
An Olympic
handover flag was raised on Sunday 24 August at Cheshunt Park Golf
Course, Park Lane, Cheshunt to celebrate the moment when London
became the official Olympic Games host.
The London Olympic handover flag was raised in
Cheshunt by the Mayor of the Borough of Broxbourne, Councillor Mrs
Carol Crump-Eynon and Lloyd Upsdell winner of two gold medals at
the Sydney 2000 Paralympics in the 100m and 200m and one bronze
medal in the 200m in Athens 2004.
The flag raising event finished a week of
sports and cultural activities 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 were 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 were also
raised at Lowestoft, the most easterly town in England and the
Isles of Scilly, the most westerly point.