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Live Canon performs poetry, from memory, at theatres, festivals and events throughout the UK. The Olympics are fast approaching and Live Canon is limbering up! Come along for a unique celebration of the games in poetry. Hear a selection of the poems nominated to be engraved on the wall of the Olympic village. Celebrate cycling, synchronized swimming, diving, sprinting, speed walking (and plenty of sporting disasters). Hear the incredible story of the injured French athlete who lost out in the triple jump but went on to take an Olympic medal for poetry?