London 2012 Water Polo Arena gets planning go-ahead
Plans for the temporary London 2012 Water Polo Arena, with a distinctive sloping roof, have been approved.
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Plans for the temporary London 2012 Water Polo Arena, with a distinctive sloping roof, have been approved.
Planners have given London 2012 Olympic organisers permission to build a temporary water polo centre with an inflatable roof.
Bristolian Craig Figes is to turn to Europe for professional water polo experience in a bid to boost Britain’s 2012 Olympic hopes.
The British women’s team will enter the Hungarian League in a bid to be represented at the London 2012 Olympics.
The 5,000 seat Water Polo arena and warm-up pool will form part of the ‘gateway’ to the Olympic Park alongside the permanent Aquatics Centre.
Netball is hoping to follow the example of rugby sevens by campaigning for the inclusion of a cut-down, speeded-up version of the sport in the Olympics, overhauling its image and attempting to banish forever associations with airtex shirts, bibs and windblown playgrounds. A new version of the sport trialled earlier this month will be used [...]
The chairman of Leeds Sharks water polo club predicts the death of the sport in Great Britain unless the funding crisis for the 2012 Olympics is addressed.
Nick Hume resigns as British Swimming’s national performance director for water polo.