With less than two weeks until the Olympic
Torch arrives in West Yorkshire, United Leeds Endeavours helps you find the
best vantage point.
The Olympic Torch is steadily making its way around the UK and with just over a week until it makes its first appearance in West Yorkshire it's time to get your viewing point planned. Leeds-based direct sales
and marketing firm United Leeds Endeavours gives you a heads up of the route
that the torch will take around the city and West Yorkshire in general so that you can get
you and your family ahead of the crowds.
The Olympic Torch will be in the county on
three occasions, on the 19th, 24th and 25th of
June. On the 19th it will arrive in Boston Spa before moving on to
Wetherby, Harewood and then onto Harrogate. It will return to West Yorkshire on
the 24th of June starting off in Huddersfield then going via Bradford,
Keighley and Ilkley before arriving in Leeds City Centre in the evening. The
evening celebrations will take place outside the town hall in Leeds City Centre
and the torch will stay overnight in the city until its sets on off on the 25th
travelling through Batley, Wakefield and Castleford.
United Leeds Endeavours has previously
reported that one of the torchbearers in Leeds with be 14-year-old Steven
Tomlinson, the son of Jane Tomlinson who raised more than £1.85 million for
charity before her death from cancer in 2007. A spokesperson for the direct
sales company said, “There are a huge number of torchbearers who have done
incredible things for their communities and deserve this fantastic recognition.
Jane Tomlinson was someone who was well known around the country for her
fundraising but who the people of Yorkshire were particularly proud of. Everyone
in the county is delighted that her son gets will be keeping her memory alive
at this wonderful occasion.”
To plan your exact spot, as well as finding
out which roads are going to be closed as the traffic goes by, United Leeds
Endeavours encourages you to visit the London 2012 website which has a full,
live and interactive map of the torch route. http://www.london2012.com/torch-relay/route/
United Leeds Endeavours would encourage
people to find out the exact timings that the torch will be traveling near to you and get down in plenty of
time to soak up the atmosphere and get a great spot, particularly for the evening celebrations
in Leeds on the 24th. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity and definitely not to be missed. We can’t wait!”
