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

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!

New Uppermill Application for and Training Schedule

Please take a look at the 2010 Uppermill Training Schedule and download the registration form on their pages

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

Senior Badminton Photos

Senior Badminton Photos are on their way up...
Please click on the following links

• Senior Badminton LGFG
• Senior Badminton D&D
• Senior Badminton Dobcross

7-9 Rounders D&D

Delph and Denshaw Junior Rounders Photos

7-9 Rounders Diggle

Lots of Junior Rounders photos, these are Diggle's

10-11 Rounders Photos

10-11 Rounders Photos available here

Rugby Photos Live

Rugby Photos are available here

Junior Rounders Results

Junior Rounders Results Have been added

Basketball Results

Basketball results are online here

Basketball Photos Online

Click on this link for the Basketball Photos

12-14 Rounders Photos

12-14 Year Old Rounders Photos available here

15-17 Rounders Photos

15-17 Year Old Rounders photos are available here

Athletics Photos Available

Lots of Athletics photos available in the Urban Haze Galleries:

• Opening Ceremony
• Jumps
• Running
• Throwing
• Relay
• Other Misc Photos
• Athletics Awards
  

Junior Athletics Results

Junior Athletics Results Available here

Opening Ceremony Photos

Photos of the opening ceremony are available here

2009 Olympics have Started!

Thanks to everyone for turning up to Churchill for the start of the 2009 Saddleworth Village Olympics.
It may have rained a little but everyone carried on regardless.

Results and photos to follow soon, so please keep checking back!

Web site Updates

Preparations are already well underway for the 2009 Saddleworth Village Olympics.
We've updated a few things on the web site including the new schedule and rules.

Plenty more updates to follow, so please keep coming back!

Awards Photos

Congratulations to everyone who took part in the Village Olympics this year.
The last of the photos featuring the Spirit of the Olympics, football and Senior Netball awards are live here

Football Photos

Football photos are online here

Senior Netball Photos

Senior Netball Photos are online here

Rugby Photos

Rugby photos are online here

Junior Badminton Photos

Junior Badminton photos are on the web site here

Senior Badminton Photos

Senior badminton photos are online here

10-11 Rounders Photos

10-11 Rounders Photos are online here

7-9 Rounders Photos

7-9 Rounders Photos are online here

10-11 Neball Photos

Photos of the 10s and 11s Netball are online here

7-9 Netball Photos

7-9 Netball Photos are available here

Basketball Photos

Photos from the basketball are available here.
Some are a little blurry - sorry about that!

Budding young tennis athletes

After the Netball, we came across these two young men playing tennis.

Definitely the type to become future Village Olympic contenders!

 

Soggy Supporters

Thanks to everyone who came to support the events this weekend

- especially those who braved the bogs and puddles at Churchill to support the Netball
 

Churchill Fields

We've had quite a few events cancelled this year because the state of Churchill Playing fields.
Thanks to Jill who captured the moment perfectly when she snapped these ducks splashing around in the large pools of water in the middle of the Rugby field.

As there were seven of them, it seemed just perfect to have one for each village!

Rounders 10-11s Winners

Well done to Uppermill for winning the 10-11s rounders!

Rounders 7-9 Winners

Well done to Greenfield for winning the 7-9 rounders!

LGFG 10-11s Netball Winners

Congratulations to LGFG winning the 10-11s Netball

Joint Netball Winners

Congratulations to both Greenfield and Uppermill for their equal score in 7-9s Netball, sharing the trophy!

More Basketball Photos to follow shortly

We'll be publishing photos of the Basketball on on the photo gallery soon, keep checking back for updates!

Basketball Greenfield Winners

Well done to Greenfield, winning in basketball

Basketball SAS wins again

Well done to SAS winning basketball in two agegroups!

Basketball SAS Winners

Well done to SAS winning in basketball

Junior Rounders - New Location

Junior Rounders will still take place on Sunday
But the location has changed to Saddleworth School
7-9s at 9:00
10-11s at 1:00 pm

Senior Rounders Cancelled

Sorry to announce that senior rounders event is cancelled

Rugby and Junior Netball as planned

Rugby and Junior Netball will run as planned on Saturday

Basketball - as scheduled

The Basketball event is still on as scheduled at Saddleworth School from 17:30 on Friday

ATHLETICS CANCELLED THIS SATURDAY

Hi Everyone,
Sorry to say that due to the state of the pitches and track at Churchill, I'm afraid we've had to cancel the Athletics this Saturday.

We will try to make re-arrangements, please keep coming back to the Web Site for updates

Weather Forecast

Well, long range weather forecast looks like there could be showers on Saturday

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2927

Let’s hope the showers holds off until the evening

 

Temperature looks good though!

 

Getting Close Now!

Next Saturday the opening ceremony will start the 2008 Village Olympics at Churchill.
We'll be there taking photos to capture those special moments and you'll find everything published up here on the Internet.

Good Luck to everyone in the Village Olympics - see you all soon!!

Photos on Diggle and Greenfield Pages

New photos have been added to the Diggle and Greenfield homepages.

Swimming Event CANCELLED

Sorry to announce that the 2008 Swimming Event has had to be cancelled, as we've been advised that the pool will be closed in September.

Let's hope the weather allows us to complete all our other external events successfully

Updated Web Site

Welcome to the 2008 Updated Site
Getting Ready for the 6th September

We've started adding in all the new details for this year and will be adding to the site from now on so keep checking back for updates!

Greenfield Presentation and Disco

Photos from the Greenfield Presentation and Disco are online here

Delph & Denshaw Presentation

Delph and Denshaw presentation photos are here

Uppermill Presentation Photos

The Uppermill Presentation Photos are online here

Dobcross Presentation & Disco Photos

Photos of the Dobcross Presentation & Disco are online here

Awards and Winners

Photos of the awards and winners are available here

Football Photos

Football photos are being posted up here

Senior Netball Photos

Senior Netball Photos are online here

Tennis Photos

About 700 Tennis photos are on their way up now here.
Please be sure to also check the "To Sort" folder section as I couldn't tell which village some competitors were from.
Can you help identify these people? - please post a comment in the blog if you can

Cricket Photos

Junior cricket photos are up now here (a few more to follow later).

Photos

Hi everyone, there's been quite a lot of people asking about the rest of the photos, I'm just working my way though the last of them now and will post them up this week.

Still to come:

• Cricket
• Tennis
• Football
• Senior Netball
• Awards and Closing Ceremony
• Dobcross Disco
• Uppermill Presentation

Please keep revisiting the Saddleworth Village Olympics web site and look at the right hand news headlines for updates
--
Nick

Senior Badminton

Here's a couple of pictures of the Senior Badminton - thanks to Carole for these

Junior Rounders Photos

Junior rounders photos are being posted online now here

Senior Rounders Photos

Being posted up right now are the Senior Rounders photos

There are still loads more photos of every village to come over the next few days so keep coming back!

Junior Netball Photos

Junior Netball photos are being posted up right now here

More Photos

Thanks to everyone for taking part this year, we've got 10,000 photos to work through and get posted online as soon as possible.
We'll be posting up the best ones over the next week.
Still to come:

• Junior Netball
• Rounders
• Badminton
• Cricket
• Tennis
• Football
• Senior Netball
• Spirit of the Olympics
• Final Award Ceremony

Please check back during the next week as we post these up

Please note you can buy any of the photos online from the Urban Haze gallery
If there is more than one picture that you like, you may be interested in the customised three pack of keyrings for only £11.99 with your choice of picture on each side or customised calendars for just £19.99 with a different picture each month.
For a special gift, how about making your favourite picture into a jigsaw for only £19.99

Please browse through the photo gallery to see all the pictures

Please be sure to re-visit the Saddleworth Village Olympics web site, as we'll be offering other gifts later in the year with some special gifts in time for Christmas

Spirit of the Olympics Awards

Spirit of the Olympics Awards are here

2007 Trophies

2007 Trophies are online here

Championship Results

The championship results are out here

Football Results

Football results are here

Senior Netball Results

Senior Netball Results are here

Cricket Results

Cricket results can be found here

Tennis Results

Tennis results can be found here

Badminton Results

You'll find the badminton results here

Saddleworth Rangers

If you're interested in finding out more about Rugby outside the Village Olympics, please take a look at Saddleworth Rangers

Rugby Photos

The rugby photos are available online here
They're sorted into teams of the main photo subject - usually passing, catching or attacking.

Be sure to take a look at the other times as you'll find some great tagging in there too.

Rounders Results

Sunday's rounders results can be found here

Basketball Presentation Photos

Photos of the basketball presentation are available here

Senior Basketball Photos

Senior Basketball Photos are online here

Netball Results

Netball results are available here

Rugby Results

Rugby results are available here

Basketball Results

Basketball results are available here

Junior Basketball Photos

You can find the junior basketball photos online here
There are some pretty cool action shots in amongst!

Spot the leg competition

Any Guesses who this leg belongs to?!

Basketball Winners

Well done to SAS winning the basketball

More photos to follow shortly

Swimming Results

The swimming results are available here

Hundreds of Photos!

All the Junior and Senior Athletics photos are now available to browse or buy through the Urban Haze online here

Senior Long Jump Photos

Senior Long Jump Photographs are available here

Junior Throws Photos

The Junior Throws photos are now available online here

Opening Ceremony Panorama

Here's a fun panorama showing everyone at the opening ceremony.
Drag your mouse across the window to move around, use the Shift and CTRL keys to zoom in and out.

Note, you'll need the Apple Quicktime plugin for this to work

You can now find all the photos of the Opening Ceremoney online here

Junior Long Jump Photographs

Photos of the Junior Long Jumps are availble here

Opening Ceremony Photographs

The photographs from the Opening Ceremony are online here.
Feel free to browse the galleries.

You can also order prints and special gifts such as jigsaws, keyrings and calendars for delivery directly to your doorstep.

Saddleworth 3D Dynamos FC

If you're interested in finding out more about the Saddleworth 3D Dynamos Football Club, please visit their web site at www.3ddynamos.com

Athletics Results

Well done to everyone who competed in the Junior and Senior Athletics!

The results are available here

Channel M Video

He're the article that was shown on Channel M Sports News about the Village Olympics.
Thanks to Channel M for recording this and their kind permission to let us use it

Photo Gallery

We've added a link to the Photo Gallery into the menu.
In here you'll find all the photographs taken at this year's event

You also have the opportunity to order high quality prints, jigsaws, calendars and key rings of your favourite Village Olympics pictures online and have them delivered direct to your doorstep.

The first gallery available online now is from the D&D Training Session

D&D on TV

The Delph and Denshaw Training filmed by Channel M will be shown this Friday 7th September at approximately the following times:

• 17:20
• 17:50
• 18:20
• 18:50
• 21:20
• 21:50

Channel M is available on Sky Channel 203 or Cable Channel 878 or Digital Terrestrial Channel 39 or regular Terrestrial in the area of Manchester
See their tuning in guide for more details.

If you miss it, don't worry, we're planning to get a video of it up on the blog soon.

D&D Training Photos

Here are the photos from tonight's training session

Channel M with D&D

Channel M came to visit Delph and Denshaw training today at Delph Cricket Club



Look out for the programme on Channel M later this week
More photos to follow soon!!

DVD Trailer Page

Just added a new page with the trailer for 2006 Village Olympics DVD