Olymppians Commemorated W/ Street Names (UK)

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Canadian Olympians Commem.

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I believe that a list of Canadian Olympians commemorated with Street Names could be compiled.Wikipedia could be a good site to store the international lists. It may be a good idea to include the status since street names change periodically. I recall the controversy when locals voted to rename the Dave 'Eli' MacEachern street, which they found too long.

Canadian Examples include:

Dave 'Eli' MacEachern (Bobsled), Charlottetown, PEI, Canada
Glenroy Gilbert, (4x100-metre men's relay; two-man and four-man bobsled) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Sue Holloway, (cross-country skiing and kayaking) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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On The Street Where You Live Forever

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Very good idea to make a Wiki with all the names of Olympians commemoratedwith street names! With the same idea I started a Google Map with the samesubject. It's on http://tinyurl.com/mh4m5g You can share and add your local Olympians with streetnames (or squares, astadion, a grave, whatever). You can also add pictures, movies, comments,memories to make it even more special. So we can make a worldwide Olympicmap. So start now on http://tinyurl.com/mh4m5g

Jurryt van de VoorenOlympic Stadium Amsterdam
www.sportgeschiedenis.nl

[mump boy]

here's a olympian street in clapham in london

i want to move here :-)

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i285/ ... street.jpg

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Heck, Irving Berlin has a whole World Championships city named after him.

[nevetsllim]

Paula Radcliffe has a street named after her.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/news ... ay_270.jpg

Overseas, most Ethiopians of stature have streets named after them and I know Mutola and Kim Collins have streets named after them.

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Steets

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Last year I did the same for Dutch Olympians - over 100 streets in the
Netherlands. Can we share these names? We can even make an international
list.

Jurryt van de Vooren
Amsterdam
Holland

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I'm collating a list of British Olympians - form any date, and from summer and winter games - who have had streets named after them. Examples include Tommy Green Walk in Eastleigh, and Lillian Board Way, Tessa Sanderson Way, and Hemery Road in Greenford. If you know of any examples, it would be great to hear from you.

Many thanks

MArtin

Dr Martin Polley
Senior Lecturer in Sport
University of Southampton
02380-597249
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