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Olympic Gold Fever (& for Yorkshire too)…

What a fantastic 2 weeks of the London 2012 Olympics!  Team GB has performed amazingly and the atmosphere across the country has been fantastic. And no more so than in Godโ€™s Own Country โ€“ Yorkshire.

If Yorkshire was its own country then we would have won as many gold medals (7) as Australia or Japan and 4 more than Spain!

There must be something in the water and the airโ€ฆ  Hereโ€™s the map from โ€˜Welcome to Yorkshireโ€™ website showing where all the Yorkshireโ€™s Olympic Heroes come from and the gold medal winners.  You can go on a Olympic Tour of Yorkshire now with gold painted letter boxes.

The Yorkshire lot are a patriotic group and a lot has been written about how well Team Yorkshire has done this Olympics such as:

The Guardian, Northerner Blog – Yorkshire finishes twelfth in medals table at Olympics

BBC Online – Yorkshire riding high on Olympic medal table

Mail Online – Going for gold: Yorkshire tourism gets a boost from the county’s Olympic athletes.

That must be why our Retreats are so successful โ€“ the answer lies in the soilโ€ฆ The Yorkshire soilโ€ฆ

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