Chris Holmes: Huge challenges await in transforming London for Paralympics

By Chris Holmes, London 2012 Director of Paralympic Integration 719PM GMT eleven March 2010

Transforming the city Chris Holmes, the new London 2012 executive of Paralympic Integration, visits the Aquatics Centre at the Olympic Park

London 2012 officials will additionally comply how any changes to venues and infrastructure are implemented and how the complete operation ramps up again to host Sir Ludwig Guttman"s idealist games. My initial point of seductiveness will be the government and successful execution of the passing from one to another duration in in between the dual games.

They say the disproportion in in between a good Games and a good one is the volunteers.

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A poignant subject for any host city is how you keep your workforce encouraged to give their majority appropriate for the Paralympics as they have finished for the Olympics.

If volunteers are the face of any Games, I would say that ride is the lifeblood. Get it right and nobody comments; experience issues and it can be the lasting corrupt on the Games. Visits to perspective the ride operations, from encampment to venues, the use for press, broadcasters and VIPs, will infer useful to serve labour the plans and delivery.

In London we wish educated, vehement spectators observation Paralympic competition at the venues, on TV and digitally. If the Games are indeed to rivet the nation, yield opportunities for immature infirm people to take up competition and to capacitate clubs to give a comfortable acquire to infirm and robust people, the work needs to camber all equates to of information exchnage and connection.

Vancouver has run an glorious preparation programme, and if they can fill Paralympic venues as they did for the Olympics, it will be a extensive achievement.

Leaving the majority critical people until last, it will additionally be a good possibility to see the British Paralympians in action.

For any host nation, the success of the athletes leaves lasting memories for a open when judging that Games" success and impact. We need to safeguard that the London 2012 Paralympic Games have the communities, the city and the nation stronger, some-more inclusive, and essentially changed.