Team GB Barcelona bound
The 2010 European Championships are almost upon us and we'd like to wish Good Luck to all those competing in Barcelona over the coming days. A very large party of travelling BASC support will be there to support you in person! For those at home there is extensive live coverage from Tuesday through till Sunday on the BBC and on British Eurosport.
Hannah Cockroft to receive BASC Susanna Ingram Award
We are delighted to announce that Hannah Cockroft is to be this year's recipient of the club's Susanna Ingram Award to a disability athlete. For further details of the achievements of this remarkable young sportswoman click here.
BASC Golden Jubilee Dinner update 10 July 2010
We have now reached our capacity of 120 for the BASC Golden Jubilee Dinner at Ettington Chase near Stratford-upon-Avon on Saturday November 13th. Thank you to all of our members who have booked in such large numbers.
Any additional members now seeking to book will be placed on a waiting list. Further details of the event itself will be posted here shortly.
BASC coaching award goes to Julien Raffali
On a cold and blustery Bedford day the BASC presented three awards during the AVIVA U20/U23 Championships and World Trials.
Julien Raffali is pictured receiving the BASC Ron Pickering Coaching Award for his work with a squad of talented young pole vaulters, three of whom, Andrew Sutcliffe, Katie Byres and Holly Bleasdale, are pictured here with their coach.
Congratulations Julien - we look forward to following their progress of your young squad with interest.
For details of more awards presented click here.
Visit the 2012 site
Once again we are visiting the site of the London 2012 Olympics. On the afternoon of Friday 13th August, ahead of the first evening of the Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace, a small group of BASC members will be visiting the venue to see how construction work is progressing. Due to the ongoing nature of the building work access to certain areas of the site will have to be restricted. The site visit will start at 1pm and is limited to just over a dozen BASC members in total, so please let Stephen Burgess know here as soon as possible if you are interested. If you have visited the site on previous occasions now is a chance to see how things are developing with only just over 2 years to go!
2012 ticket registration commences
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Although ticket sales for London 2012 will not commence until 2011, the online registration process has now been launched. To set up an account, see the answers to several FAQs and save crucial time later on, go here and follow the instructions provided.
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Club structure
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Members will have read in the latest issue of "Backtrack" that the club's committee has proposed that the club incorporate as a Company Limited by Guarantee. This was unanimously agreed at the recent Annual General Meeting. For more details please see here.
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Roald Bradstock BASC polo shirts
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We are pleased to now offer for sale to all BASC members a limited-edition white polo shirt with the BASC logo on one breast and a reproduction of the specially commissioned design (see right) by former javelin champion Roald Bradstock ("the Olympic Picasso") on the other.
Only 150 of these shirts will be produced and sold, with each shirt being individually numbered. Having already offered these for sale to those members present at the recent BASC dinner, where the original artworks were auctioned, we are now making them available to all members whilst our limited stocks last.
These shirts are available for £15 including postage and packing, and can be purchased in Small, Medium, Large, XL and XXL. A limited number in extra small may be available.
Cheques, made payable to "British Athletics Supporters Club", should be sent to 91 Croesonen Parc, Abergavenny, Mon. NP7 6PF. Please mark your envelope Bradstock Shirts and please indicate the size(s) you require.
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Paul Dickenson takes the mic
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Over 70 BASC members joined celebrated BBC TV athletics commentator and former Olympian Paul Dickenson for an excellent evening of food, company and conversation at the club's 2009 Annual Dinner in Birmingham. Thank you to everyone who attended, especially Paul and his long-time friend (and sparring partner!) Chris Black for being such entertaining guests.
Those present will be aware that the evening ended with the auction of two exclusive artworks designed for and donated to the club by Roald Bradstock. Roald was twice a British Olympian, in Los Angeles in 1984 and Seoul in 1988, and was the first British javelin thrower to break the 90 metre barrier with the "Old Rule" javelin in 1985. A year later he was the first man in the world to break the 80 metre barrier with the "New Rule" javelin.
Since retiring Roald has developed his art skills and further details of this aspect of his talents can be found on his website at www.roaldbradstock.com .
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Awards bonanza in Bedford
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British Athletics has got talent and, on a hot summer's day when Bedford felt more like Barcelona, we were delighted to recognise it and to present four individuals with their awards from the club. Jean Pickering herself was on hand to assist us. More details can be found here.
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AVIVA supports the BASC
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As members who were present at the club's recent AGM will be aware, we are delighted to announce that AVIVA (formerly Norwich Union), principal sponsors of UK athletics, have made a very significant donation to BASC funds in order to help defray expenses in promoting athletics to supporters and potential supporters alike.
We would like to express our grateful thanks to them for this very generous donation and for their ongoing support of athletics in the United Kingdom. We look forward to further developing the relationship that has been established with them over the years ahead.
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Christine's our runaway winner
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Photograph courtesy of Richard Lane
In the end it was no contest. Although votes were cast for several other worthy candidates it was no surprise that BASC members voted Olympic 400 metre champion Christine Ohuruogu their British Athlete of the Year for 2008 by a considerable margin.
BASC Chairman Philip Andrew managed to achieve what Sanya Richards couldn't do in Beijing and caught up with the golden girl herself inside a darkening National Indoor Arena in Birmingham after the AVIVA Indoor Grand Prix to present her with her award from the club.
Thanks to Fast Track for their help in organising the presentation of this award.
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Fantasy athletics
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For those sports fans who regularly pit their wits with fantasy football and other sports, our Yearbook Editor Richard Cooper has a website at www.fantasyathletics.co.uk in which you can test your knowledge against fellow athletics fans in a free-to-enter fun contest.
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Photos wanted
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As always we'd like to get more photos sent in from members to go up on this site - they can be of you meeting athletes, photos from an indoor or outdoor meeting, whatever you like. Send them to us at info@basclub.org.uk and we'll put them up.
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BASC Yearbook
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We are always looking to improve the quality and content of the publications we send to our members. Our Yearbook Editor Richard Cooper would like to hear your views on our annual Yearbook: what you like about it, what you don't and how you might feel it could be improved. Contact him on richard.cooper.1976@googlemail.com so that we can take your views into consideration.
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