British Ski Team fundraising at Metro Ski & Board show - Win a Nintendo Wii or DS.

As a follow on to an earlier thread on J2ski about the problems at SSGB & loss of funding of the GB ski team a good initiative will be started at this years Metro Ski & Snowboard show to raise much needed cash for all the team athletes.
A quote from SSGB
"This year SSGB (SnowsportGB) has teamed up with the Metro Ski and Snowboard Show organisers, The Ski Club of GB and SEGA to try raise much needed funds to help support the athletes in the GB team.

There will be two initiatives going on at the time of the Show;

1. The Show organisers have agreed to ask show visitors to donate £2 to the teams when they purchase tickets. Any funds raised will be split between SSGB and Disability
Snowsport UK athletes.
2. SSGB, in conjunction with the Ski Club of Great Britain and SEGA, will have a stand next to the Ski Club's stand at the Show dedicated to fundraising for SSGB athletes. SEGA
are about to launch a new game "Sonic and Mario at the Olympic Winter Games" and visitors to the Show will asked to pay £2 to race against British Team athletes past and
resent.

To give you a few more details about the 'SEGA stand', athletes and visitors will post fastest times down the course (either racing side by side or one at a time). Results will be recorded in a Top Gear style leader board - 'the stars' fastest times will be in one column, 'the visitors' in another column. The visitor with fastest time on each day of the show will win either a Nintendo Wii or Nintendo DS, plus a copy of the soon to be released game "Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games".

So please all J2skiers & friends that go to the show just please donate the £2 when you buy your ticket and also have a challenge with one of the team to see if you can beat them. You may win a Wii or a DS.
The GB team really need your support.
TJ will be there as one to challenge!

I don't have a problem donating a couple of quid but I do find it frustrating that we as a country struggle to invest in our young people, perhaps we really are a third world country :cry: