Boris thinking about Plings

We’ve just seen the report ‘A Sporting Future for London‘ and it’s great to see a mention of a possible Plings roll out across London to support the delivery of sporting and cultural activity information as part of London 2012.

Nothing confirmed yet… but of course, we’ll make sure readers of the Blog are the first to know any more news…

Does it need to be an official thing to do?

An interesting news item today talks about how youth groups and support structures are not prepared for the growth in free running

Sport England are quoted as saying they have had no requests for free running (or Pakour as it is known) to be recognised as a sport.  Therefore, it is not is the assumption…

A quick search on You Tube for “free running uk” returns quite a lot of results. Quite how much is by “young people” I don’t know, but there will be a host of sites, blogs and content dedicated to it.

What should a youth group, service or training organisation do?  What happens if young people want to do this, and apply for funding?  The news item suggests that the lack of national structures mean that training and support is difficult to gather.

If anybody has any experience in the sector of this, it would be interesting to hear more…

A teenage dream is so hard to beat…

Dear Plingers,

He did it!

Teenage diving star Tom Daley won the 10m platform title in Eindhoven last month, against a host of tough competition. Daley, born in May 1994, will be just 14 years and 81 days old when the Beijing Games – for which he has qualified – begin this summer.

His Olympic year has already yielded a fistful of gold medals – six at the British Championships in Manchester and another at the Europeans in Eindhoven.

He’s not alone – the one-to-watch is also joined by a host of other teenage talent, including table tennis ace Paul Drinkhall (18) and showjumping star Daniel Neilson (17).

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