SPORTS centres in and around Glasgow want to cash in on the 2012 London Olympics.

The organising committee for the games has invited leisure venues across the country to be considered as pre-games training camps.

Glasgow and North Lanarkshire councils have a list of venues they say can host the world's top athletes.

Officials will check them out this year and a guide containing all those selected will be distributed at the end of the Beijing Games next year.

The Glasgow centres are the National Indoor Sports Arena in the East End, which is yet to be built, training facilities at the Palace of Art at Bellahouston, Scotstoun leisure centre and Toryglen football centre.

All four venues are expected to be used if the city gets to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

It is suggested basketball and cycling as well as some other sports training could take place at the National Indoor Sports Arena. Wrestling could be held at the Palace of Art, while Scotstoun could take athletics and badminton and Toryglen could host football.

Council culture and leisure spokesman John Lynch said: "As one of the UK's leading sporting cities, it is natural we should host training sites."

North Lanarkshire is putting forward Broadwood Stadium in Cumbernauld, Ravenscraig regional sports facility, Strathclyde Park and Wishaw sports centre.

The centre can cater for numerous sports including football, gymnastics, basketball, judo, volleyball, athletics, badminton, handball, weightlifting, canoeing, rowing and triathlon.

Each of the centres will also be bidding to cater for the Paralympic Games which will be held after the Olympics.

Jim Logue, chairman of the North Lanarkshire leisure board, said: "This would be a fantastic chance for people to see world-class athletes in action on their doorstep."