Legends give Connor inside track at Olympic Park
Friday 25th November 2011, 10:59AM GMT.
An eight-year-old schoolboy from Telford joined one of the world’s greatest sportsmen for an exclusive tour of the Olympic Park.
Connor Leese, eight, from Hadley, visited the Olympic Park yesterday with his father, Kevin, and met Jonathan Edwards, world-record-holding triple jumper, former Olympic champion and the new president of the Much Wenlock Olympian Society.
Connor, a fan of Wolverhampton Wanderers, said he enjoyed visiting the stadium yesterday.
He said: “The stadium is really, really big and it takes up a lot of space. My favourite sport is football but I also like running. I play football for Wrockwardine Wood Junior School and I also play for Wellington Amateurs under nines.
“I would love to play in a stadium like the Olympic Stadium. I would like to be a footballer. They chose me because I wanted to be an ambassador.”
Connor was one of the London 2012 The Games And Me Champions and won a competition after he described how he had been inspired by the Olympics.
He took up football and swimming to improve his health and in November was selected to be part of his school tennis team.
He was recently inspired to take a walk to raise funds for the Bobby Moore Cancer Fund, which sponsors his football team kit.
Connor contacted the Olympic team in August 2010 after meeting the Olympic and Paralympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville at an event in Telford, where he also met Claire Balding and David Moorcroft.
Connor yesterday said he was thrilled to be given the opportunity to visit the Olympic Park and it had inspired him to work even harder in his chosen sport.
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