(ATR) Around the Rings revisits its mother of all to-do lists with just 50 days left until the Games.
Originally compiled by ATR staff as "100 Days, 100 Things to Do" but updated here for Thursday's milestone, the rundown features all tasks done, underway or announced with a strikethrough.
The rest are still to do for LOCOG ahead of the July 27 opening ceremony.
1) Order good weather for the Games
2) Elect a mayor
3) Conduct draws for football tournaments
4) Outfit staff and volunteers
5) Hang banners in the boroughs
6) Stage Torch Relay rehearsal
7) Write Sebastian Coe speech for opening ceremony
8) Handle entry of 10,500 athletes to the UK
9) Erect and furnish hospitality venues in Olympic Park, around the city
10) Distribute tickets for Olympic Park access
11) Prepare Orbit Tower for visitors
12) Open Court for Arbitration of Sport office
13) Finish temporary departures pavilion at Heathrow
14) Prepare Lord’s for archery
15) Issue 80,000 credentials
16) Begin doping lab operations
17) Stage torch relay
18) Royals Watch: William & Kate, The Queen
19) Install apparatus for athletics events
20) Take delivery of 400 basketball game balls
21) Conduct boxing draw
22) Open Broxbourne slalom canoe course
23) Prepare Eton Dorney for rowing and canoe
24) Open Velodrome for training
25) Initiate traffic restrictions for road cycling
26) Install fencing gear at ExCel
27) Conduct draw for gymnastics
28) Approve plans for Sochi 2014 ice rink in Kensington Gardens
29) Clean Serpentine for triathlon and marathon swim
30) Prepare for protests about Dow, anything, everything
31) Keep bus, transit and taxi drivers happy and on the job
32) Reductions and closing of criminal courts
33) Deliver food for 14 million meals at the Games (45,000 meals per day)
34) Unpack 28,000 duvets made for beds in the Olympic Village
35) Flush every toilet in Olympic Village
36) Blue line the marathon route
37) Grow grass quickly at Wimbledon
38) Prepare 2100 medals and bouquets
39) Distribute tickets
40) Sell 1.5 million tickets for football
41) Sell one million contingency tickets in the next round of sales
42) Security exercises and sweeps at all venues
43) Install Dow stadium wrap
44) Queen’s Jubilee
45) Host 124th IOC Session
46) Troubleshoot every available rail car and bus
47) Triple staff at immigration at airports
48) Conduct tennis draw
49) Ship 400 containers of boats to Weymouth sailing venue
50) Last preps in football cities
51) Prepare Horse Guards for beach volleyball
52) Quarantine and clear 230 horses for equestrian events
53) Provide 70 horses from Great Britain for modern pentathlon
54) Train a brigade of Wenlock and Mandeville performers
55) Create mix tapes to play at venues
56) Deploy 23,700 security staff
57) Prepare Ramadan fasting kits for athletes in Olympic Village
58) Daily or near daily press conferences heading to the Games
59) The BBC gears up for a broadcaster’s summer of the century
60) West End theaters keep doors open for Olympic visitors
61) Restaurants print new menus with new prices
62) Close the Mall
63) Make sure Roger Bannister is invited to the Games
64) Confirm which heads of state will attend
65) Open non accredited media center – aka London Media Center
66) Prepare for the Paralympic Games
67) Dressrehearsals for opening, closing ceremonies
68) Fit out Main Press Center, International Broadcast Center
69) Olympic overlay needed at 32 venues.
70) Stripe and sign carriageways for Olympic Route Network
71) Open Olympic Route Network July 26
72) Open London 2012 Festival
73) Deliver 270,000 clay targets to Royal Artillery Barracks
74) Open ticket kiosks
75) Ensure all 204 national anthems, flags are correct
76) Assemble bus fleet for media, athletes
77) Prepare for transfer of knowledge to Rio de Janeiro
78) Hotels ready for influx of visitors
79) Decorate bridges
80) Clean up Thames
81) Open Olympic Village July 16
82) Light up London Eye
83) Hang rings on Tower Bridge
84) Erect and stock Olympic stores
85) Dust and clean at Buckingham Palace
86) Merchants, restaurants, get ready at Westfield Stratford City
87) Install Russian Olympic House at Kensington Gardens
88) Prepare Somerset House for Brazil
89) LOCOG staff start looking for new jobs
90) Try to retain key staff
91) Celebrate World Sports Day June 27
92) Prepare Live Sites
93) Find tenant for Olympic Stadium
94) Ensure London keeps moving
95) Construct 11 temporary venues by early July
96) Shut down bogus ticketing, accommodations sellers
97) Open and staff the Olympic Village polyclinic
98) Collect every one of the 2,012 pins
99) Finish training volunteers
100) Keep secret the identity of who will light the cauldron
Compiled by Ed Hula and Mark Bisson.
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