GB Deaflympics goes live
26th December 2004by Peter Atkinson
SportFocus are pleased to announce that the new website for the GB Deaflympics has gone live. To visit the site click here.
The contract was awarded to SportFocus just two weeks ago but the partnership between the Deaflympics team and the SportFocus team quickly bonded and the result has been a comprehensive site that you bring you all the news as it happens each day.
There will also be and SMS service that anyone can sign up to for ‘Alerts’ every time the GB Squad wins a medal.
There will be 2 photographers at the games and a wealth of pictures will be sent back electronically and anyone wishing to purchase these can do so on-line.
From January 5th to the 16th the streets of Melbourne, Australia, will come alive with elite athletes and their supporters from over 90 countries around the globe who will be competing and participating at the 20th Summer Deaflympic Games.
The Deaflympic Games, under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee, is the second oldest multi sport and cultural festival on earth with a long and proud history since the Inaugural Games in Paris in 1924.
A major coup for Australia, the 2005 Games will mark the second time this event has been staged in the Southern Hemisphere.
Commencing with the twilight opening ceremony on the evening of January 5th, at Olympic Park, the spectacular arrival and lighting of the Official Deaflympic torch will set the scene for 12 days of elite sports and cultural events.
Over 3,500 athletes and team officials are expected to attend and participate in 15 individual and team sporting events to be held in and around Melbourne City and the nearby historic city of Ballarat.