Representatives from the Barbados National Olympics Committee (BNOC) made a fact-finding mission to Wandsworth last week to inspect training facilities ahead of the 2012 London Games.
The BNOC officials came to the borough to look at potential training camp facilities for athletes, such as 100m bronze-medallist Obadele Thompson, in the run-up to the Olympics.
Wandsworth has been approved as a potential home of a pre-games training camp because of its many excellent sporting facilities.
The council is keen to encourage competing nations to set up training camps in the borough as this will boost the local economy before and during the games.
Council facilities that could be used include the Barn Elms Sports Centre for archery, the Millennium Arena in Battersea Park, the Tooting Bec athletics track and Battersea Youth Sport Centre for fencing, judo and wrestling.
Ernest Bevin College in Tooting has facilities for badminton, basketball, judo, table tennis, tae kwondo, indoor volleyball and wrestling.
Sarah McDermott, the council’s leisure spokesman, said: "With the range and quality of the sporting facilities we have in this borough, we are very confident that we can attract an ambitious and high-achieving team."
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