By agreement of the members of the creation team, The Sussex Olympic Rings group of 65 caches will be archived on September 19th, 2016. Thanks for your understanding.
This series of 65 puzzle caches has been placed to celebrate the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. Each ring is set by different cachers and contains 11 or 12 hides plus a bonus. The whole design is over 4km across. You will need to find all caches for a ring in order to find the bonus and complete the ring.
There are three Medal caches above the rings, Bronze, Silver and Gold. See the Bonus cache descriptions for how to find them. See the Gold Medal cache page for full series credits.
The cache is NOT at the given coordinates.
Parking
Two significant, free, parking locations have been added as waypoints on all the Yellow Ring caches. These are not necessarily the best place to park for all the caches, but you should consider them seriously where they are reasonably near the final co-ordinates you have successfully had confirmed by GeoCheck. Where more appropriate parking locations are available, some of these have been noted as parking waypoints in Geocheck. You may be able to download these.
At the time of placing, the cache contains the logbook, a small pencil and sharpener (though best to bring your own pen), and a few swaps including some Olympic/Paralympic goodies!
Tri a bit of Boccia?
The Full rules of Boccia will aid you in solving the puzzle.
A:
• Each throwing box is 2m in length
• The first end is started by the blue team
• Boccia was first introduced to the Paralympics in the 1988 Seoul games
B:
• A player may stand to make his/her throw as long as they remain inside their box
• Nigel Murray won gold medals in both 2000 and 2008 paralympics
• The court is 6m wide
C:
• In an individuals match, throwing boxes 3 and 4 are used
• The Individuals BC1 Gold medal winner in 2008 Beijing games was from Portugal
• The Target area is 46.5m2
D:
• The jack ball may be provided by the player/team
• Each player in an Individuals match has 6 balls
• A team may be made up of any combination of BC1 and BC2 players
E:
• A player may throw or kick a ball
• Men and women compete together
• BC4 classified players may only ask for assistance from the referee to pick up a dropped ball or go onto the court.
F:
• The Invalid area has an area of 13.5m2
• In a tie-break the jack ball is thrown by the red team
• Substitutes may not throw any warm up balls at any time
G:
• There are 6 ends in an Individuals match
• Take the total area of the playing court in m2. Continuously sum the digits until a single digit is reached. It is 3.
• A Boccia ball is approx. 86mm in diameter
H:
• There are 6 ends in a Pairs match
• Athletes must be at least 12 years of age on Jan 1st of the year they will be competing in a paralympic event.
• BC3 players (using an assistive device) may be assisted by a Sport Assistant who remains in the players box, may watch the play, but must not speak.
The cache is located at: N51 0A.BCD W000 0E.FGH
The cache is situated in a nature reserve. Permission has been granted for this placement.
