The Royal Mail has announced it will produce stamps to celebrate each individual or team gold medal won by Great Britain at the London 2012 Paralympics. Paralympians gold medal winners will now get the same treatment as the likes of Olympic cycling champion Laura Trott (Picture: PA) Stamps to honour all 29 British gold medallists at the London 2012 Olympics were made and on sale within 24 hours of their victory, as well as each winner having a postbox painted gold in their home town, and it proved so popular that they have decided to extend it to Paralympians as well ? although the number of medals likely to be won means stamps will not be on sale quite as quickly. ?We believe this is the right thing to do,? said the Royal Mail?s managing director of stamps, Andrew Hammond. ?Just as our Olympians outperformed expectations, we are confident that our Paralympians will also outperform. That would see us issuing many more individual stamps than the 29 printed over the London 2012 Olympics fortnight. ?This is a huge logistical challenge and we will get the Gold Medal stamps for sale as quickly as possible to a network of Post Office branches around the country and certainly within five working days of a win.? The chief executive of the British Paralympic Association said they were ?delighted? by the gesture from the Royal Mail. ?We hope that the whole nation will continue their support of British athletes and cheer us on to many gold medals,? said Tim Hollingsworth. The London 2012 Paralympic Games begin on Wednesday August 29 at the Olympic Stadium, and will be opened by the Queen.
Source: http://bbc-worldnews.net/2012/08/royal-mail-to-extend-gold-medal-stamps-scheme-to-paralympic-games/
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