Shenzen Universiade Underway
Top university athletes from 149 countries are in Shenzen, China for the 26th Summer Universiade.
Following an opening ceremony on Friday, competition kicked off over the weekend in fencing, football, tennis and a number of other Olympic sports.
Chess, the only Universiade discipline not also included on the Summer Games program, starts Monday.
Athletics, badminton and basketball begin Tuesday.
Events run through Aug. 23.
Three Years to Nanjing
Tuesday marks three years to go until the opening of Nanjing 2014.
Roughly 3,600 athletes aged 14 to 18 will compete in 28 sports in the second Summer Youth Olympic Games.
Events run from Aug. 16 to 28.
First Test Event for Olympic Park
A venue in Olympic Park will be tested for the first time this week during the London International Basketball Invitational.
The national teams of Great Britain, Australia, China, Croatia, France and Serbia will square off in 15 games from Tuesday to Sunday insidethe 12,000-seat Basketball Arena.
The temporary construction, one of the largest ever for an Olympics, will host basketball prelims and women’s quarterfinals during the Games as well as men’s quarterfinals, all semifinals and all medal matches for handball. Wheelchair basketball and rugby will be staged there during the Paralympics.
The building will be dismantled after competition to bereused elsewhere.
BMX Adds to Busy Week
Olympic Park gets a second dress rehearsal this week when more than 170 riders take to the new BMX track built just outside the 2012 velodrome.
Roughly 3,000 spectators are expected for both Friday and Saturday sessions of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup, also the discipline’s test event.
Once BMX and basketball come to a close over the weekend, LOCOG takes an almost two-week break from its busy schedule of test events. Then it’s back to Eton Dorney, site of the recent junior rowing world champs, for a sprint canoe invitational in early September.
Written by Matthew Grayson.
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