Cardiff celebrates Games handover.Cardiff helped celebrate the official handover n. 1. The act of relinquishing property or authority etc. to another; as, the handover of occupied territory to the original posssessors; the handover of power from the military back to the civilian authorities s>. from Beijing 2008 to the London 2012 Olympic games yesterday. As millions across the world watched China's glittering closing ceremony, the city marked the occasion with the raising of an Olympic handover flag. Hundreds attending Mermaid Quay Cardiff Harbour Festival looked on as four parachutists from the Royal Parachute Regiment jumped out of a plane carrying the flag at 2.45pm. A boat then brought the flag to land and it was passed to young athletes waiting on the pontoon pontoon, one of a number of floats used chiefly to support a bridge, to raise a sunken ship, or to float a hydroplane or a floating dock. Pontoons have been built of wood, of hides stretched over wicker frames, of copper or tin sheet metal sheathed over wooden at Roald Dahl Plas. The athletes - all potential competitors for the London 2012 Olympics - carried the flag to the centre of the Plas where it was raised. A flag-raising ceremony also took place at the Millennium Stadium and the Welsh Institute of Sport The Welsh Institute of Sport is an organisation set up in 1972 to assist in the development of the top athletes in Wales. The institute has indoor sports halls located in Sophia Gardens in Cardiff called the Main Hall. in Sophia Gardens at 3pm. See pages 4-5 |
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