Bradford College has unveiled exciting plans to bring a taste of the 2012 Olympic Games to the district.

Michele Sutton, the college's principal and chief executive, said the college's new McMillan campus would provide an ideal training camp for one of the national teams taking part in the London Olympics.

She said the £18 million campus, which is under construction, would have a mix of top-class sports facilities and modern residential accommodation, making it an ideal Olympic training camp.

Meanwhile, Sir Clive Woodward, the elite-performance director of the British Olympic Association, said he was highly impressed by the scale and ambition of Bradford College's investment in sports facilities.

The former World Cup-winning England rugby union coach said the state-of-the-art sports hall, set for completion in summer 2008, would give the college the chance to produce a future Olympic champion.

Mrs Sutton said: "We would very much like to be involved in the Olympics to offer training camps to countries' sports teams.

"We will have an £18m new-build with residential accommodation and an eight-court badminton sports hall.

"We have certainly got the makings of a great training camp for one of the Olympic teams and that would be fantastic for the city if we could pull it off.

"The new building will greatly enhance our sporting facilities."

Sir Clive, who was a guest at the college's 175th centenary party at the weekend, said: "We want to push ahead with sport in colleges and, from what I have seen, Bradford College is in really good shape for the future.

"The new sports building is on a huge site, I did not realise it was quite so big. It's a multi-purpose facility and it is very ambitious from a sporting point of view.

"As the athletes will tell you, you can have all the talent in the world but you need facilities and top-class coaching.

"The college's principal and teachers know success is about real hard work.

"They have got new great facilities to look forward to, so there's no doubt this college can produce people who can become Olympic champions.

"There are five years to go until the Olympics and we are looking to build up the momentum now.

"We want the Games to have a legacy across the whole country and we want to see talent taken onto a new level in all areas."

Bradford College's desire to get involved in the Olympics comes hot on the heels of the launch of the Yorkshire Gold document - a blueprint designed to allow the county to derive maximum benefits form the 2012 games."