Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge take part in a Mexican Wave whilst watching the track cycling on day 1 of the London 2012 Paralympic Games at the Velodrome on August 30, 2012 in London, England. (© Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

William and Kate do the wave during a track cycling event on the first day of the 2012 Paralympics.

Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, watch British cyclist Sarah Storey break a world record in her C5 Individual Pursuit heat at the Paralympic Games. (©AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau)

William and Kate cheer at Paralympic track cycling event.

Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, departs after watching Great Britain play Lithuania in Goalball at the Paralympic Games. (©AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau)

Kate also attended the British goalball team's match against Croatia at the Paralympics.

Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, watches Croatia play Great Britain in women’s handball at the Olympics. (©AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Kate gets caught up in the action at women's Olympic handball.

Prince William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, cheer on torchbearers in front of Buckingham Palace. (©AP Photo/LOCOG, Gareth Fuller)

William and Kate applaud an Olympic torchbearer before the London games begin.

Then Kate Middleton, the girlfriend of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, cheers for England against Italy in a Six Nations rugby match on Feb. 10, 2007. (©AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Kate Middleton, before her marriage to Prince William, cheers for England in a Six Nations rugby match against Italy in February 2007.

Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, right, and her sister Pippa Middleton, applaud at the men’s final at Wimbledon. (©AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Kate cheers with her sister, Pippa, at the men's Wimbledon final this year.

Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, joins the crowd for the wave at Wimbledon. (©AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Kate does the wave with the crowd at Wimbledon.

Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, waits for the beginning of the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games opening ceremony. (©AP Photo/Toby Melville)

Kate awaits the beginning of the London Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Prince William, and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, watch the women's 200-meter backstroke final at the Olympics. (©AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

William and Kate watch the women's 200-meter backstroke at the London Games.

Prince William, right, and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, watch track cycling at the velodrome during the Olympics. (©AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Kate and William watch track cycling at the Olympics.

Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, center, watches the artistic gymnastics with British gymnasts Kristian Thomas, left, and Imogen Cairns at the Olympics. (©AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Kate takes in the Olympic gymnastics competition.

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, watch the equestrian cross country phase at the Olympics. (©AP Photo/David Goldman)

Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, and Kate watch an equestrian event at the 2012 Games.

Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, leaves after watching a women's hockey bronze medal match between Britain and New Zealand at the Olympics. (©AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Kate helped cheer the British women to a bronze medal in field hockey at the London Olympics.

Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, takes a field-hockey shot while visiting the British women’s Olympic field hockey team. (©AP Photo/Chris Jackson)

Kate shows off her own field hockey skills after meeting the British women's Olympic team this year.

Kate, Duchess of Cambridge watches women's boxing at the Olympics. (©AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Kate watches an Olympic women's boxing match in London.

Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, accreditation (©AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

The official Olympic accreditation for the Duchess of Cambridge.

Duchess Kate shines in her role as royal cheerleader

8/31/2012

The Olympic spirit is still going strong in London as the Paralympic Games got under way Wednesday in Britain’s capital city. And no one loves a sporting event as much as the newest royal, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Kate was in the crowd along with Prince William as the games began and got swept up in the action, shedding her regal persona to take part in the wave. It’s no surprise though — in her relatively short time in the public eye, Kate has proven she loves to watch a good athletic competition. Check out our gallery of the duchess letting loose and enjoying the action, in London and elsewhere.

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