Torbay has managed to get five venues listed in the London 2012 pre-games training camp guide. This is a remarkable achievement, not least because Torbay is hardly endowed with the best sporting facilities in the region, and the Torbay bid was the only one not fronted and supported by the local authority.

Uniquely Torbay's was a private sector-led offer that impressed the London Organising Committee of the Games (LOGOC) resulting in Torbay having more venues than any other area in the region of a similar size.I was able to celebrate with Paralympics swimming gold medallist Giles Long and LOGOG officials when the successful areas were announced in London this week. From their perspective the most impressive part of the Torbay application was the coming together of the sporting associations and businesses.

It is the icing on the cake of all the benefits that may accrue to Torbay from the games.

While I hope we will host competitors, and it is not just national Olympic teams or individual event athletes that might choose to train in Torbay, but the Paralympics participants as well. It is the partnership that so impressed LOGOC that could be the real legacy of the 2012 games.