At a press conference held at Stoke Stadium yesterday afternoon (Monday), Coe announced 130 venues in the South East would be used as pre-training camps for the London Games in four years' time.

And three of those venues will be right here in Aylesbury Vale. Unsurprisingly Stoke Stadium, otherwise known as the home of Paralympic sport, will play a big role, hosting archery, athletics, badminton, basketball, fencing, table tennis, indoor volleyball and weightlifting Olympians for training.

Other Aylesbury Vale facilities also being used include Aylesbury College, which will host basketball and Tae Kwon Do, and Quainton Stud which will be an equestrian training base.

With the excitement building as the Olympics looms on the horizon, BHTV spoke to Coe about the announcement and how preparations are coming along.

Coe's career: Coe became an atheltics icon during a glittering career as a middle distance runner. He won the 1500m gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and set eight outdoor and three indoor world records.

Following his retirement from athletics, he served as a Member of Parliament from 1992-97, and became a life peer in 2000.

He was the head of the London bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics and, after the International Olympic Committee announced London as the winning bid, became the chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, the organisation in charge of overseeing the development of the Games.


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Look out for an interview with British swimming Olympic gold medallist Adrian Moorhouse to come later this week.