OKEHAMPTON Table Tennis Club was officially put on the 'map' this week when The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) launched the London 2012 pre-games training guide.

The launch, held at the British Embassy in Beijing, was hosted by Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012, British Olympic Association chairman Lord Moynihan and Olympics minister Tessa Jowell MP as well as representatives from the English region - hoping to attract teams from all over the world to train and prepare in their area.

The guide contains more than 600 sporting venues throughout the UK which meet the standards required to host teams and athletes in the run up to the London Olympics — including an entry for Okehampton Table Tennis Club hoping to lure national teams to use its Castle Road facilities.

As well as a wooden sprung floor table table facility the club has access to three sports halls for players to hone their fitness.

The website entry for OTTC can be accessed via the site on http://www.london2012.com/trainingcamps">www.london2012.com/trainingcamps.

It outlines the superb facilities the club has built up over the years where the club says 'no expense was spared; from a beautiful wooden sprung floor to halogen lighting, blue competition tables and blue walls. There are also two robots for practice purposes and a UKCC level three coach available alongside seven other coaches.'

Among the matches already hosted by OTTC are the Devon Youth Games (1,000 participants), the Devonshire Tournament, county matches, National Junior League, National British League, National Senior British League and Exeter League tournaments. From September 2008 it will stage its own National Cadet League competitions and a Regional South West Closed Tournament.

Lorraine Robinson, the secretary of Okehampton Table Tennis Club, is pleased that the new guide is now available and hopes that some team will choose Okehampton as their venue in preparation of the world's biggest sporting event.

She said: 'It would be fantastic if we could attract some team to the club but I'm not one to jump the gun. We shall just have to wait and see, there's a lot of competition out there.'

Lorraine said she was a bit disappointed that the Britain did not have any players qualify for the Beijing Olympics but hopes this will change by 2012 in London.

'The club has more than 125 members now, a quarter of whom are children, which is good news. It may be that one of more of these youngsters could themselves be playing in future Olympics — which would be fantastic. We have really come along as a club and have done well to reach this stage in being considered as an Olympic pre-training camp facility.'