50 Days to London
Thursday marks 50 days to the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics.
LOCOG tells Around the Rings the milestone will be used to emphasize how everyone in the U.K. can join in with the Games, regardless of ticket allotment.
Torch Relay
The Olympic Flame reaches Dublin on Wednesday and arrives in Scotland on Friday.
Rio Co-Comm
Olympics organizers in Rio de Janeiro will need to impress with their construction progress this week to avoid raising any red flags fromchair Nawal El Moutawakel and the rest of her Coordination Commission for 2016.
Both the Sambodromo – venue for the marathon start and finish as well as archery events – and phase one of the Transoeste Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line are expected to be on display to the IOC with both slated for completion this year.
The Co-Comm begins Monday and runs through Wednesday.
Tuesday Talk
This week’s Tuesday Talk is with Charlie Denson, president of Nike Brand.
ATR Editor Ed Hula spoke with Denson during SportAccord, where he delivered Wednesday’s keynote on "Inspiring the Next Generation".
Euro 2012
ATR will be on the scene Friday as UEFA’s Euro 2012 football finals kick off with Poland versus Greece inside newly built Warsaw National Stadium.
Wroclaw, Gdansk and Poznan are the other Polish cities jumping into action this weekend.
Kharkiv, Lviv, Kiev and Donetsk are the stadium sites for co-host Ukraine.
Written by Matthew Grayson
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