Olympics come to Birmingham for Sport Relief challenge

The Olympic Games is getting a head start this week as law firm Weightmans LLP hosts its inaugural ‘Weightmans Olympics’ event in aid of Sport Relief.

The event is taking place at Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena on 22 March and will see five teams of staff from the firm’s Midlands offices compete against each other in everything from javelin to hurdles and even the old favourite; the egg and spoon race.

The Weightmans Olympics is organised by paralegals Chaitali Desai, James Grinstead and Ray Hetherington from the firm’s Birmingham office.

“The firm encourages staff to take part in fundraising activities throughout the year but Sport Relief offers a particularly good opportunity to do something a bit different,” said Chaitali.

“I can’t wait to see colleagues pitting themselves against each other. I suspect their competitive streak might get the better of a few of them!” added James.

Ray concluded, “Hopefully the games will be such a success that we can make it an annual event.”