UK Olympic archer Alan Wills and Copeland’s mayor Keith Hitchen have been getting their heads together to come up with ideas for an archery camp.

They hope the camp would be used by archers from across the world to train at and get used to the British climate.

Mr Wills said that a major part of an athlete’s training before the Olympics is to go to the host country and get used to the weather conditions.

In 2006 and 2007, he went to Beijing to train ahead of last year’s Olympics, where he was shooting his arrows in temperatures up to 40 degrees and 100 per cent humidity.

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