22 August 2008

Ian Ritchie, AELTC Chief Executive with the London 2012 Flag.

The All England Club, Wimbledon and the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games have announced that an Olympic Handover Flag will be raised at the Club to celebrate the moment when London becomes the official Olympic Games Host City on Sunday 24 August.

The flag raising will take place next to the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum at approximately 2:30pm. 

A first in the history of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the London Olympic Handover Flag will be raised at Wimbledon simultaneously with regions arou
nd the UK.

Over 500 flags have been delivered to locations including HM Armed Forces, embassies around the world, City Halls, British Council offices and Foreign and Commonwealth offices.