We have an opportunity to stand up and say, We will go on. We respect what GB athletes have achieved and what The London Olympics has tried to achieve and we commit to The Legacy. Because it is US who are the legacy. It is is us who can get out into our communities and lead sport, it is us who can encourage our children to try something new, it is us who can personally donate to sports bodies who are generally charities. It is US who can take hold of this moment and take our first steps to 2016. It is now that we can start to become a new sort of Games Maker.
Games Makers UK for 2016 will not let the inspirational efforts of 541 athletes get ignored in a media rating war or a political debate. They will start taking steps now to ensure that 2016 sees us take Home Advantage on the road. What does the Games Maker UK for 2016 look like?
If you are able then compete!
If you can fund them...then fund them!
If you can stand in the torrential rain watching them compete in a dreary corner of the UK ....then support them!
If you see a dream....... feed it, with anything you can!
If you see them stumble....send them encouragement!
If you have time ...... give it - to coach, to make the teas, to man the gates, to sweep the track, mark the lanes, whatever it takes.
If you can do nothing else take a piece of A4 and write four numbers on it 2-0-1-6 and place it in your window; send a message to your road, your neighbourhood, your town, to the young adults that make noise at 4 am that if they will commit to greatness you will back them because together as a nation we can make 2016 glorious.
Whatever it takes 2016
........Just a thought........
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