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New After-Schools Clubs For Teenagers

Teenagers will get the chance to try out Olympic and Paralympic sports as 6 million pounds is being spent on new after-school clubs.

From this autumn, 3 thousand clubs are going to start being set up at secondary schools and colleges, offering children the chance to do sports like badminton, fencing, table tennis, and wheelchair basketball.

It's part of plans to get kids active ahead of the 2012 Games.  

It comes as the 450 million pounds understood to be needed to open the Olympic Park to the public after 2012 could rise.

Speaking to a committee of MP's, Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell  says it's a "highly provisional approximate figure".

 

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