News From the London 2012 Blog
A night with the Midlands best sports personalities
I recently attended the BBC Midlands Sports Personality Awards at the Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham. I work for a smaller regional company that has won a main contract on the Olympic Park. Earlier I had given a presentation in Walsall about how smaller regional companies can also win work helping to build the Games through . Now, back to the glamour of the glittering black tie event, which was attended by a number of medal winners from past Olympic and Paralympic Games. I met Anita Lonsborough who won a Swimming gold in the Rome 1960 Olympic Games when I was 11. But of particular interest to me and my company was Eleanor Simmonds, winner of two Paralympic gold medals in the Swimming pool in the Beijing 2008 Games. In recognition of Ellie’s achievement, our company, which is tunnelling a deep drainage network for the Olympic Park, has named one of our tunnelling machines after her.