Tickets back on sale

TICKETS are back on sale for eight of the previously sold-out Olympic sailing events.

The Nothe Gardens is making history as the first-ever ticketed event for Olympic sailing.

Tickets costing £20-£35 are available for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, July 29-31.

Medal race day tickets, costing £55, are up for grabs for Monday, August 6, when Weymouth’s defending champion Paul Goodison and Portland’s Ali Young will battle for the podium in the Laser and Laser Radial classes; Wednesday, August 8, when Exmouth’s Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes will compete in the 49er medal race; Thursday, August 9, when Portland’s Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell will race in the 470 men’s final; Friday, August 10, when Weymouth’s 470 Girls Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark aim to vie for glory and Saturday, August 11, for the Match Racing finale, hopefully featuring Lucy and Kate Macgregor and Annie Lush.

Visit tickets.london2012.com and ‘search events’ to buy.

Island life

AN ARCTIC island will be arriving in Weymouth tomorrow offering residents their first sighting of the nomadic public artwork.

Nowehereisland, which is part of the Maritime Mix Cultural Olympiad by the Sea, will be arriving at Furzy Cliff, near Bowleaze Coveway, The day’s free family-friendly events, from 12pm to 5pm, will also include placard-making workshops followed by a Nowhereisland citizen march through the town, live music, spoken-word performance and a community picnic.

In addition to the island’s arrival, the Nowhereisland Embassy, a mobile museum packed full of artefacts and resources through which the project’s story unfolds, will be open. Vist nowhereisland.org

Walk Weymouth

THE Royal Geographical Society has chosen Weymouth to feature in a Discovering Places initiative as part of the Cultural Olympiad.

The resort features as one of the select number of walks on the ‘walk the world’ website developed to celebrate the 206 Olympic and Paralympic nations in the UK.

Weymouth’s Walk explores how the seaside resort was built and prospered through its links to the wider world.

Street names, buildings, monuments and people provide clues to these connections with Olympic nations such as India, Jamaica, Iceland and Belgium.

Weymouth residents are being urged to put forward suggestions of links they know of themselves.

Visit walktheworld.org.uk.