British athletes to be given chance to prepare for London 2012 at best facility in the world
24.03.2010 World
March 18 - British athletes at the Lee Valley Centre will be training on a new Olympic-style Mondo surface within a month.
The current track at the High Performance centre, which was laid in 1997, is either too hard or too soft in places, and will be relaid as part of a re-vamp which will bring the venue up to the very highest world standards two clear years before the London 2012 Olympics.
Dan Pfaff, the recently appointed director of the Lee Valley centre, estimated today that the venue was "30 per cent off" being as good as the best such facilities in the world.
But Pfaff, who coached Canada’s Donovan Bailey to the world and Olympic 100 metres titles, added that a series of innovations including the relaying of the track and the arrival of new physiological testing equipment - including a Tensile Myographic Unit costing around £10,000 which will make accurate measurements of athletes’s muscle capacity - would see it move up to 100 per cent within the next six months.
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