Officials will sign a contract with Birmingham City Council when they travel to the city to watch the Aviva Grand Prix at the National Indoor Arena on Saturday.

The deal is a coup for Birmingham, who have already signed a similar deal with the United States athletics team.

The two countries both finished among the top four in the athletics medals table at the Olympics in Beijing in 2008.

A spokesman for Birmingham City Council said: “There are two major forces in world athletics who have set up their training camps for the London Olympics and both have decided to come Birmingham.

“This is a major coup and shows that Birmingham has the sports facilities to attract the world’s greatest athletes and will play a major role in the 2012 Olympics.”

Birmingham City Council Leader Mike Whitby and his senior sports officials laid the foundations for the deal when they met with the Jamaican athletics bosses at the World Championship in Berlin last summer.

He also spent four days in Jamaica where he met the Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Sports Minister Olivia Grange, as well as Bolt.


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