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Thursday 22 September 2011

Football goes ahead as planned this Sunday at Churchill

This weekend's football tournament goes ahead as planned at Churchilll playing fields.

Seniors kick-off at 9am prompt (Skip breakfast to avoid being late - Howard Catering will be there with coffee and bacon butties)
Juniors kick-off at 1pm prompt

Please do not be late - Any team that misses their first scheduled game will be unable to take part.

Tuesday 20 September 2011

This weekend's Football

This weekend's football tournament will go ahead as planned. The only question is venue. An inspection of the Churchill pitches will take place on Wednesday. If they are deemed unfit for play then the event will take place at Saddleworth School instead. An update will be posted on the blog on Thursday morning

SVO Remaining Schedule

The remaining schedule for the Village Olympics is:.
  • Thursday - Senior badminton at the school - 12-14 from 4.30pm, 15-16 from 6.30pm;
  • Friday - Junior badminton - 7-9 from 4.30pm, 10-11 from 6.30pm;
  • Saturday  - two events: cricket at Uppermill cricket club (senior 12-14 from 9am & junior [7-9 and 10-11] from 1pm; and tennis at Tame Valley (15-16 from 9am and 12-14 from 1pm);
  • Sunday - football (venue to confirm) - seniors (12-14 and 15-16) from 9am, and juniors (7-9 and 10-11) from 1pm.
  • Spirit of the Olympics awards ceremony on Sunday before the start of the junior football.

Tuesday 13 September 2011

Olympics Events Continue this Weekend

Friday night (16 September) sees the senior basketball at the school - age groups 12/14 and 15/16, entries will be accepted on the night, mixed teams accepted. The event kicks off at 5.30pm;

Saturday (17 September) see the junior rounders at the school - age group 10/11 at 9am and age group 7/9 at 1pm;

Sunday (18 September) see two events: senior netball at the school (15/16 at 9am and 12/14 at 11am); and swimming at Saddleworth pool (9/11 at 2pm and seniors at 6pm).


See you there!

SVO Tag Rugby Results

You can see the Tag Rugby Results by clicking on the link below:

SVO Junior Netball Results

You can see the Junior Netball Results by clicking in the link below:

SVO Senior Rounders Results

Click on this link to see the senior Rounders results:

Friday 9 September 2011

SVO on BBC Radio

Listen to an interview given by Steve Bradley, Delph & Denshaw committee member, on this morning's Shaun Keaveny's show on BBC Six Music, talking about the Olympics, it's history and this year's event.


Use BBC iPlayer to listen again to the show by clicking on this link
Skip forward to about 1:14:50 to hear Steve talking to Shaun

Junior Netball Fixtures (Printable)

You can see a downloadable and printable copy of the Junior Netball fixtures here:
10-11 Fixtures
7-9 Fixtures

Thank you Saddleworth Runners

SVO Committee member Lisa Shepherdson just wanted to talk about the job Saddleworth Runners have done in running athletics training sessions on Thursday nights over the summer.

Lisa says:

"I can’t applaud this training enough..absolutely brilliant. Kids have made loads of new friends across the villages, and been keen to turn up every week for last few months."

Wednesday 15 June 2011

26th Saddleworth Village Olympics - 2011

The 26th Saddleworth Village Olympics will run from 10th September - 25th September 2011, be sure to visit the web site for all the latest news including rules, schedule of events and other useful information!

Sunday 26 September 2010

A Big Thank You


A Big Thank You to all the Committee members for organising this year's amazing 25th Village Olympics.
Extra Special thanks to those retiring this year for all your hard work over the years!!
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Saturday 11 September 2010

Chairman's Challenge #1

A special Surprise Event this year was the Chairman's Challenge.
Event #1 saw Ben and Paul in a 50m sprint on Space Hoppers!!
Click the link to see the video

Senior Athletics Results

Congratulations to Uppermill, also winning the Senior Athletics.
Full results here:
Photos to follow soon

Junior Athletics Results

Congratulations to Uppermill, winning the Junior Athletics.
Full Results here:

2010 Village Olympics are OPEN

Well today got off to a damp start, but thanks to everyone for turning up and making it a special event.
Photos and results to follow soon
...plus footage of the special event of the Chairman's Challenge #1

Saturday 4 September 2010

2010 Site Update

The 2010 Village Olympics are less than a week away now.
The site has been updated with the 2010 details

Good luck to all that take part, we'll be there taking photos again this year!

Wednesday 30 June 2010

Monday 21 September 2009

Results

All the results are now live on the web site

There are also thousands of photos live and thousands more coming soon
Please keep visiting over the next week for updates