Flint: Display for Jade Jones ahead of 2024 Olympics

The prospect of becoming the first taekwondo athlete in history to win three Olympic gold medals awaits Flint's Jade Jones in Paris next year.

Jones won her first Olympic title as a teenager at London 2012 and followed that up with another four years later. 

The 30-year-old was awarded an OBE at the start of this year and is considered a hero by many, including by those in her hometown of Flint.

Residents of the north Wales town are currently pulling together to create a display to help cheer Jones on at the 2024 Olympics next year.

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Individuals and businesses are being invited to take part in the project which will see two silhouettes of Jade, and knitted tributes put up in the town.

Nathan Griffiths, one of those organising the project, said: "We are getting ready for the Paris Olympics 2024 and we are looking for individuals or businesses that can help paint our three-foot wooden Jade Jones silhouettes, which will be part of the displays ready for the Paris taekwondo 2024 Olympics.

"They will be displayed in the George and Dragon Public House on Church Street, Flint, Jade's hometown on the day of her fight.

PICS: Examples of the displays which will be put up in honour of Olympian Jade Jones in Flint.

Nathan added: "The public House has been a venue in previous Olympics where the community has gathered to watch around a large screen.

"Letters and silhouettes hopefully will be painted in the Wales Welsh flag colours.

"If people can give a hand they can email me on nathangriffiths@mail.co.uk We also have knitters who have been busy knitting Jade Jones characters to go on the bollards in Church Street, Flint."