Olympic flag will be raised at Waddow
Published Date:
21 August 2008
AS the Olympics draw to a close, preparations for the 2012 games in London are already well under way.
To symbolise the handover from Beijing to London, special Olympic flags will be raised at venues around the UK on Sunday, the final day of the current games and the beginning of the countdown to the next ones in four years' time.
One of the flags will be raised at Waddow Hall, after Ribble Valley Borough Council accepted an invitation to take part in the national handover celebrations.
The specially designed flag, measuring six feet by three feet, features a version of the London 2012 logo and will be flown for just over a month, until September 30th.
It will be raised on the flagpole at Waddow Hall at around 2-30 p.m. to coincide with the handover of the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of London during the televised closing ceremony of the Beijing Games. Several hundred other towns and cities across the UK will will mark the occasion with their own simultaneous flag raising ceremonies.
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21 August 2008 4:22 PM
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