The First Commission
BT and London 2012
Katie Murphy b1987, Gurpreet Virdee b1991, Sutveer Kaur b1989, Alex Loukos b1992
© Brian Griffin - National Portrait Gallery/BT Road to 2012 Project
"There were 30 of us, but we were representing all young Londoners. It was quite a responsibility."
Alex Loukas
Murphy, Virdee, Kaur, Loukos (seen here left to right) are four of thirty young East Londoners, who joined the 100-strong London 2012 delegation team for the final stage of the bid in Singapore 2005. These Young Ambassadors represented both the communities that would benefit most if London won the XXXth Olympiad, and the bid team's core concept of inspiring young people.
Kaur currently works for the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) as a Starting Blocks trainee. Loukas, is a student who was inspired by his grandfather, an East End boxer, to take up the sport at Langdon School. Murphy joined Olympic suppliers Haydon M&E in London Docklands as a document controller and Virdee is now a university student.
Photographed by Brian Griffin, 17 September 2009, Langdon School, East Ham
