15c - Boxing
with a view of the Houses of Parliament in the background
50c – High
Jump with a view of Nelsons Column in the background
65c –
Swimming with a view of the Tower Bridge in the background
70c –
Athletics with a view of the Main Olympic Stadium in the background
Designer
Andrew Robinson
Printer
Cartor Security Printing
Process
Stochastic Lithography
Perforation
13 ¼ x 13 ½ per 2cms
Stamp size
28 x 42mm
Sheet Layout
10
Release Date
26 June, 2012
Production
Co-ordination Creative Direction (Worldwide) Ltd
Bahamas Celebrates its Participation in the London 2012
Olympic Games.
The 2012 Olympic Games are the third to be held in London.
In 1908 the games were scheduled to take place in Rome, but the eruption of
Mount Vesuvius in 1906 led to them being moved to London. The 1944 Olympics
were also to have been held in London, but were deferred to 1948 due to the
world war. It was these Games that saw, for the first time, two leading
yachtsmen from the Bahamas (Durward Knowles and Sloan Farrington) qualify for
the Olympics. However as the Bahamas had no Olympic Committee they represented
Great Britain and only narrowly missed a medal (they were placed 4th overall)
despite a broken mast and a disqualification.
As a result of their outstanding performance, their Bahamian
supporters were determined to have them sail for the Bahamas in the 1952
Olympics; and so it was, with the Helsinki Olympics only months away, that on
8th May 1952, prominent sports leaders and members of the Bahamas House of
Assembly met to form the Bahamas Olympic Association (now the Bahamas Olympic
Committee).
Since that first Olympic experience, the founding members of
the Bahamas Olympic Committee have, through their efforts many years ago, left
a legacy upon which today's Association members continue to nurture and sustain
the local Olympic movement. Over the years members have sought out Bahamians
not only with athletic talent, but those who carry within the spirit of the
ideal Olympian, a spirit of the highest ideals and boundless determination
balanced by a sense of belonging to the brotherhood of man. All energies have
been directed toward ensuring that these elite athletes have been afforded
every opportunity for success at the Olympic Games. Much of the Association's
efforts have also been directed toward rallying financial support from their
community so that their country is represented at all major sporting events
regionally and internationally.
In Helsinki in 1952 the team again included Sir Durward
Knowles and Sloane Farrington who won the country's first bronze medal in the
Star Class sailing event. Sir Durward Knowles and Sloan Farrington went on to
win a bronze medal in Melbourne in 1956; and a gold medal, with Cecil Cook as
crew, in Tokyo 1964. Sir Durward continued competing in the Olympic Sailing for
a record of eight Olympics; the last being Pusan, Korea in 1988 at the age of
seventy, making him one of the oldest and most successful Olympians.
Starting out as a small organisation with one competitive
sport, yachting, Bahamas now has many world class athletes in a variety of
disciplines. These accomplishments can only be attributable to association
coaches, parents and support structures, and the athletes' sacrifices over the
years that contribute to these kinds of results.
One hundred
and twenty-five Bahamian Athletes have competed in seven different disciplines
in the Olympics; Athletics, Boxing, Cycling, Swimming, Tennis, Wrestling and
Yachting.
The Olympic
Games is the greatest sporting event in the world and The Bahamas is planning
to send its best team ever to London 2012, with the hope and determination to
again have their athletes on the medal stand.
Designs, the
concepts of which are based on the iconic posters produced for the 1948 Games
are as follows;
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