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Saturday, 11 September 2010

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

Saturday, 23 May 2009

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!

Wednesday, 24 September 2008

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

Saturday, 20 September 2008

Basketball Photos

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

Monday, 15 September 2008

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!
 
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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
 
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Sunday, 14 September 2008

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!
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Rounders 7-9 Winners

Well done to Greenfield for winning the 7-9 rounders!
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Saturday, 13 September 2008

LGFG 10-11s Netball Winners


Congratulations to LGFG winning the 10-11s Netball
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Joint Netball Winners


Congratulations to both Greenfield and Uppermill for their equal score in 7-9s Netball, sharing the trophy!
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Friday, 12 September 2008

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
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Basketball SAS wins again


Well done to SAS winning basketball in two agegroups!
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Basketball SAS Winners


Well done to SAS winning in basketball
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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

Thursday, 4 September 2008

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

Monday, 1 September 2008

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!

 

Sunday, 31 August 2008

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.

Monday, 21 July 2008

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

Sunday, 22 June 2008

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!

Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Wednesday, 3 October 2007

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

Tuesday, 2 October 2007

Monday, 1 October 2007

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

Friday, 28 September 2007

Senior Badminton



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

Wednesday, 26 September 2007

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!

Tuesday, 25 September 2007

Sunday, 23 September 2007

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

Wednesday, 19 September 2007

Saddleworth Rangers

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

Tuesday, 18 September 2007

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.

Monday, 10 September 2007

Hundreds of Photos!

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

Sunday, 9 September 2007

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

Friday, 7 September 2007

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


Thursday, 6 September 2007

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

Wednesday, 5 September 2007

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.

Tuesday, 4 September 2007

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!!
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