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Lizzy Yarnold Open Top Bus Victory Tour Otford Pond 10.30Am Wednesday 18 April See Lizzy Yarnold on Her Victory Bus Tour Farningham Road Orchards Academy 11.35am Swanley Horton Kirby Swanley Market Primary School 11am 12.20pm Farningham Eynsford Eynsford High Street 10:45pm Eynsford Hever Road Shops 1.10pm Finish West Kingsdown Primary School 1.15pm West Kingsdown Shoreham Station 10:35pm Shoreham Otford Otford Kemsing Lizzy Yarnold Open top bus victory tour Otford Pond 10.30am Wednesday 18 April See Lizzy Yarnold on her victory bus tour. The tour will begin in Sevenoaks at the District Council offices making its way to Swanley, stopping at the bottom of Swanley High Bat & Ball Street (by the steps next to the NatWest bank) before Trinity School finishing in West Kingsdown. 9.45am Unfortunately, the public are not allowed entry into any of 5 the school grounds on the tour. 2 2 A All timings are approximate. The Vine: 9.35am For up-to-date progress of the tour, please follow us on Sevenoaks Twitter @sdc_newsdesk Sevenoaks 1 © Crown copyright and database rights 2018 Start Ordnance Survey 100019428 Leaves Sevenoaks District Council: 9.30am as possible my two Olympic Gold Medals - dreams can come true!” come can dreams - Medals Gold Olympic two my possible as support. I can’t wait to come and visit and show as many young people people young many as show and visit and come to wait can’t I support. achieve. Thanks to everyone in the Sevenoaks District for all their their all for District Sevenoaks the in everyone to Thanks achieve. shows, if you dream big and work hard then who knows what you can can you what knows who then hard work and big dream you if shows, at times I wasn’t sure if I would be able to defend my title, but it just just it but title, my defend to able be would I if sure wasn’t I times at Double Olympic Champion! The last four years have been tough and and tough been have years four last The Champion! Olympic Double Lizzy Yarnold, says: “It still hasn’t really sunk in that I am now a a now am I that in sunk really hasn’t still “It says: Yarnold, Lizzy to help with the transition to the new sport. sport. new the to transition the with help to Council, funded by Sevenoaks District Council, awarded her a grant grant a her awarded Council, District Sevenoaks by funded Council, When Lizzy took up the Skeleton, the Sevenoaks District Sport Sport District Sevenoaks the Skeleton, the up took Lizzy When brakes! down on a sled, reaching speeds in excess of 90 miles an hour, with no no with hour, an miles 90 of excess in speeds reaching sled, a on down in this sport, as competitors slide down a frozen track, lying face face lying track, frozen a down slide competitors as sport, this in entering a talent search in 2009. It takes nerves of steel to take part part take to steel of nerves takes It 2009. in search talent a entering Lizzy is a talented all-round athlete who took up the Skeleton after after Skeleton the up took who athlete all-round talented a is Lizzy the only Brit at this year’s Winter Olympics to clinch a gold medal. gold a clinch to Olympics Winter year’s this at Brit only the Lizzy, who grew up in West Kingsdown in the Sevenoaks District, was was District, Sevenoaks the in Kingsdown West in up grew who Lizzy, Winter Olympic Games in 2014. in Games Olympic Winter Winter Games in PyeongChang after she won Gold at the Sochi Sochi the at Gold won she after PyeongChang in Games Winter The Skeleton sensation retained her Olympic Gold at the Korean Korean the at Gold Olympic her retained sensation Skeleton The successfully defend her Winter Olympic title. Olympic Winter her defend successfully history in February when she became the first British athlete to to athlete British first the became she when February in history Sevenoaks District’s Olympic champion, Lizzy Yarnold MBE, made made MBE, Yarnold Lizzy champion, Olympic District’s Sevenoaks Our Double Olympic Champion Olympic Double Our Come along and congratulate Lizzy for her record- breaking achievements. If you are planning to bring a group of people to stand by the roadside, please let us know by Victory calling 01732 227000 or e-mailing communities@ parade route sevenoaks.gov.uk & timings inside We will make every effort to slow down the bus as it passes you. Share your photos with us on Twitter @sdc_ newsdesk or using #lizzyparade or via Facebook @ sevenoaksdc Share your photos with us on Twitter @ sdc_newsdesk using #lizzyparade or via Facebook @ sevenoaksdc See our double Olympic Champion Lizzy Yarnold This publication is available in large print and on her open top bus victory parade can be explained in other languages by calling 01732 227000. on Wednesday 18 April March 2018 throughout the District www.sevenoaks.gov.uk/lizzygold www.sevenoaks.gov.uk/lizzygold sdc_newsdesk #lizzyparade Sevenoakssdc.
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