Posted by James in Olympics, Sports
The Olympic schedule of events has been released by the organisers of the London 2012 Olympic summer games ready for tickets to be released on March 15th.
Running from 25th July – 12 August 2012 the Olympics are the biggest sporting event of their type and it is getting closer everyday with 528 days to go until the Olympic schedule kicks off.
It is now only 4 weeks until tickets go on sale to the general public and the schedule allows people a chance to pick what they would like to see.
Highlights include the opening and closing ceremonies on 27th July and 12th August respectively, the 3rd August when the athletics begin including the big one, the men’s 100 metres final on 5th August.
In a country where football (soccer) is almost a religion there will be, for the first time ever, a British football team participating in competition. According to the Olympic schedule this starts on 26th July 2011 and you can expect stadiums to be full.
The first swimming medals will be won on Saturday 28th July and there is a lip smacking possibility of two of the greatest swimmers of all time competing against each other in the 200m freestyle.
Australian Graham Thorpe recently announced his comeback and the golden man, Michael Phelps, with 14 Olympic golds to his name is pretty much guaranteed to make the cut.
Other highlights on the Olympic schedule include the men’s singles Tennis final on Sunday 5th August at the famous Wimbledon centre court. Local favourite Andy Murray will hope to be there.
Sunday 12th August sees the basketball final, will the American ‘dream team’ be able to defend their Olympic title?
Visit www.london2012.com to get further details on the Olympic schedule.
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