UPS Add New Ambassador in GB Gymnast Louis Smith

UPS have secured their fourth ambassador for London 2012 in the form of Great Britain gymnast Louis Smith, Olympic silver medallist.

Smith, who became the first British gymnast for a century to win an Olympic medal when he finished second on the pommel horse at Beijing in 2008, joins Ben Ainslie, Denise Lewis and Steve Rider as ambassadors for UPS, a Tier One London 2012 sponsor.

The 22-year-old from Peterborough celebrated his new relationship by visiting UPS’s 2012 Logistics Centre in Tilbury, where he saw a logistic milestone of  UPS reaching its 250,000th item for the Games by the UPS operational team following the completion of first-round testing.

Last month, UPS successfully managed the logistics for two test events at the BMX track and Basketball Arena, both situated at the Olympic Park, which concluded an intense schedule of eight London Prepares events over 15 days.

This followed similar operational testing at other key London 2012 venues this summer, including equestrian and modern pentathlon events at Greenwich Park, the sailing regatta at Weymouth and Portland and mountain biking at Hadleigh Farm in Essex.

The events, organised as the first cluster of the London Prepares series, enabled UPS to test and observe the most crucial logistical processes that will operate at every stage of competition during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games – from initial venue delivery and installation, to transition between different sports and events through to final venue breakdown.

Smith siad: “It has been a fantastic experience to visit UPS’s London 2012 Logistics Centre and see the hard work that has taken place over the last couple of months, testing the logistics set-up that will make each sport possible come competition time. It’s great to see that it is not just athletes like myself who have spent the summer busily preparing for London 2012.”