500-Days-to-Go Milestone Brings London Ticket Window
Roughly 6.6 million tickets will go on sale this week to mark 500 days to go until London 2012.
Ticket hopefuls can register interest in between four and 30 seats per session when the application window opens Tuesday.The process is not first-come, first-served – when a session’s demand exceeds its supply, tickets will be allocated via a ballot system. The window will close six weeks later on April 26.
LOCOG CEO Paul Deighton will dish the scoop on everything you ever wanted to know about London tickets but were afraid to ask in this week’s edition of Tuesday Talk.
New Faces on USOC Board
Introductions will be in order when the U.S. Olympic Committee’s board of directors convenes Tuesday.
This will be the first quarterly meeting for five new members: former Microsoft executive Robbie Bach, USA Hockey executive director Dave Ogrean, four-time Olympian in cross-country skiing Nina Kemppel, former John Hancock CEO James M. Benson and Susanne Lyons, who was recently chief marketing officer for longtime Olympic sponsor Visa USA.
The USOC is trying to hold costs down by asking board members to take turns providing a suitable meeting place.
Around the Rings will be on the scene as Atlanta Braves executive VP Mike Plant welcomes his fellow board members to Turner Field, the converted Olympic Stadium from the 1996 Summer Games.
Maiden Testimony for Disgraced Medalists
Greek sprinters Katerina Thanou and Kostas Kenteris are scheduled to testify Monday for the first time in criminal court.
Last week was the first time either athlete appeared before magistrates since the long-delayed trial kicked off in January. Thanou showed up Tuesday in Athens, but Kenteris was out of the country. It’s unclear whether he’ll return for Monday’s testimony.
They are on trial for allegedly faking a motorcycle crash that caused the pair to miss a drug test on the eve of the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Thanou was a silver medalist in the 100m in Sydney,and her then-training-partner Kenteris was the men’s 200m champion.
Stars Align for AfricanInternational Sport Convention
IOC members, NOC leaders and the three 2018 bid cities will be out in full force this week for the fifth annual African International Sport Convention (CISA).
So too will ATR editor Ed Hula, who will moderate a panel titled "The road to 2020: Is Africa ready to host the Olympic Games?"
IOC vice president Ng Ser Miang, Rio Coordination Commission chair Nawal El Moutawakel, IAAF vice president Sergei Bubka, International Boxing Association president C.K. Wu and International Triathlon Union president Marisol Casado are among the speakers for the three-day conference.
CISA runs Thursday through Stadurday in Marrakech, Morocco and is put on by JAPPO Events and Sports Management Consulting.
Sport, Media Collide in Hong Kong
Asia will have a conference of its own this week as well.
SPORTELAsia convenes Wednesday through Friday in Hong Kong and will include panels and round tables about important topics in the worlds of sport and media.
Written by Matthew Grayson.
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