Double snub for city's Olympic plans.LONDON 2012 Olympic representatives snubbed Cardiff's bid to hold the white-water canoeing competition twice, the city's council leader Rodney Berman Rodney Berman, a Liberal Democrat Councillor for the Plasnewydd ward, is leader of Cardiff County Council. A Glaswegian by birth, Rodney studied at the University of Glasgow where he helped run Glasgow University Liberal Democrats before moving to Wales to study towards a revealed yesterday. Earlier this year, council officers met representatives of the Olympic Delivery Authority The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is the body responsible for ensuring delivery of venues, infrastructure and legacy for the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. to tell them about the city's new Olympic standard white-water rafting venue being built in Cardiff Bay Cardiff Bay (Welsh: Bae Caerdydd) is the regeneration area created by the Cardiff Barrage which impounded two rivers (Taff and Ely) to form a new 500 acre freshwater lake around the former dockland area south of the city centre of Cardiff in south Wales. . And again, at the Wales Regeneration Forum in October, officers raised the issue at an open debate with the authority's director of venues and events. But Coun Berman said each time the authority had been "emphatic that no new events would come to Wales". He said he would continue to campaign take every opportunity to promote the pounds 13.3m 250m-long slalom venue which is expected to open in 2010. There are plans to build a 300m white-water rafting and canoeing venue at Broxbourne in Hertfordshire for the Olympics. |
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