Coe, Chernyshenko Headline ATR Newsmaker Breakfast
"Breakfast with Seb and Dima" – Monday’s Around the Rings Newsmaker Breakfast – is set for the Fusion Plaza restaurant, 2nd level (street mall) of the World Trade Center Moscow from 7:30 to 9 a.m.
Sebastian Coe, chairman of London 2012, and Dmitry Chernyshenko, president and CEO of Sochi 2014, will join Ed Hula, editor of ATR, on the sidelines of the Association of National Olympic Committees General Assembly and World Olympic Sport Convention.
The event is sponsored by ISM Ltd., the IOC's worldwide exclusive interactive entertainment software licensee, and The Concerto Group, London's premier events planning organization.
Space is strictly limited.
Click here for more information, and RSVP to Harriet Drinkwater of The Concerto Group.
100 Days to London
Around the Rings will be onthe scene in London for Wednesday’s celebrations marking 100 days to go until the 2012 Olympics.
National Olympic Committees the world over will also observe the occasion, including the USOC with its "Road to London" event in New York City’s iconic Times Square.
Sports Ministers Meet
This week’s second World Olympic Sport Convention – a meeting of sports ministers devised by former ANOC president Mario Vazquez Rana – will also be the last.
Amid concerns over the number of attendees, ANOC secretary general Gunilla Lindberg tells ATR that 180 participants from 125 countries will be involved Monday and Tuesday in Moscow.
2012 Test Events
LOCOG has its busiest week of test events in a while with dress rehearsals in sport shooting, synchronized swimming, and wheelchair rugby.
Shooting’s "London Prepares" ISSF World Cup kicks off Tuesday at the Royal Artillery Barracks with 15 events in the disciplines of rifle, pistol and shotgun spread across the following two weeks.
FINA’s Olympic Games Synchronized Swimming Qualification runs Wednesday through Sunday at the Aquatics Centre in Olympic Park and is also the last opportunity for athletes to book berths at the Games.
And the Basketball Arena in Olympic Park gets its first Paralympic test event Wednesday and Thursday with the London International Invitational Wheelchair Rugby Tournament.
Written by Matthew Grayson
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