Although the 2010 Commonwealth Games are over, there are hopes that they will leave a legacy … in Jersey.

For Jersey’s Team England badminton player Elizabeth Cann, holder now of two bronze medals, Delhi was something of a triumph. Four years ago she lost the individual bronze, going down to Scotland’s Susan Hughes 21-19 in the third set.

This year she gained her revenge (beating the now Susan Egelstaff 21-18, 21-16) for that Melbourne setback, but after the Games were over – and despite my prediction that at least one Team Jersey competitor would come back with a medal – what the Island’s assistant director of Education, Sport and Leisure, Derek de la Haye, came back with could be just as valuable.

For although nothing has been confirmed in writing yet, the Olympics team from Lesotho are interested in using Jersey as a base for the 2012 Games in London. And although Derek has explained that nothing is definite; surely what he is attempting to do – to offer Lesotho and other nations the chance to use Jersey as a training camp – can only be good for the Island and our potential guests, not least because we’re less than an hour away from Gatwick and have some of the best training facilities in the south of England.

I applaud Derek’s initiative and hope that at least one country sends their athletes to make a base camp here in Jersey. We have the facilities; all we need now are the people.

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