Panasonic Holds "Rope Jump" Event at the London 2012 Olympic Park Live Site

Panasonic Holds "Rope Jump" Event at the London 2012 Olympic Park Live Site PR Newswire LONDON, August 1, 2012 LONDON, August 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasonic Kids School program uses sport to encourage international friendship Panasonic Corporation today announced the Panasonic Kids School "Rope Jump" event at Park Live, the official live site of the Olympic Park. The event happened twice on July 31 in partnership with the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) during the London 2012 Olympic Games (London 2012). Six lucky primary school students, aged between 10-12 years old, from Surrey were invited to join the celebration of the Panasonic Kids School 'Rope Jump' event at the Olympic Park alongside an audience of 10,000 people, whilst one of Britain's leading female athletes, Kelly Sotherton, presented the winners with their medals."Rope Jump" is part of the Panasonic Kids School activities; a variety of educational programs conducted worldwide which saw 460,000 children take part last year. Panasonic's unique skipping sport requires more than ten people skipping together using a skipping rope for three minutes. They compete for total points during the three minutes based on the numbers of the jumps and rotations made during the time. The Japanese students demonstrated Rope Jump in front of 10,000 Olympic Games fans visiting the Olympic Park Live Site.