100 Days to go.....
ITU News
Update - May 5, 2004
2004 ITU World Aquathlon Championship & This Weekend's
Madeira Triathlon World Championship
The Age Group, Junior and Athletes with a Disability events take place Saturday, May 8th; the Elite events on Sunday May 9th.
For complete start lists and race information visit www.triathlon.org. Live coverage from Madeira is available on www.triathlon.org beginning at 8:30 a.m. local time (7:30 a.m. GMT)
100
days to go to the Games: Athens for the Athletes
One hundred days before the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games
to be held in Athens, the President of the International Olympic Committee,
Dr Jacques Rogge, and the President of the ATHENS 2004 Organising Committee
for the Olympic Games, Mrs Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, made the following
statements:
Dr. Jacques
Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee
In just one hundred days' time, Greece will have the opportunity to
demonstrate its legendary hospitality, known as filoxenia, when Athens
welcomes the world for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games.
As we enter
the final stretch together, most of the preparations are already complete.
More work remains, however, and we are continuing our close cooperation
with the Athens Organising Committee and the Greek
government, to ensure that everything needed for the Games to succeed
is in place.
All the reports
I receive indicate just how fast and how hard Greece is working to complete
preparations--not only for the Games--but for improvements to the country's
cultural, urban and transport
infrastructure that will continue to serve generations to come.
In the coming days, the IOC's Coordination Commission and the IOC's Athletes Commission will be visiting Athens to take a closer look at the venues where the world's best sportsmen and women will compete this Summer. I look forward to hearing more news from them of how much is being accomplished in a short time, just as I look forward to standing alongside my Greek friends and colleagues as the athletes enter the Olympic stadium only one hundred days from now.
Gianna
Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, President of ATHENS 2004
"In
100 Days, the world's most skilful athletes will assemble in Greece for
the historic homecoming of the Olympic Games - and we will be ready to
welcome them. Athens will be great for the athletes, Greece will be
great for the Games.
We will offer
the world a unique Games on a human scale, focused on the competitors,
and the Olympic ideals which they embody and which unite us all: peaceful
competition, the pursuit of excellence, and our common
humanity.
Today, and
for the next 99 days, Athens will be working around the clock to prepare
for the Games, testing and putting into place the world's greatest Olympic
venues, and the largest, most comprehensive and best-funded
security effort in Olympic history. Our state-of-the-art sports venues
have been successfully tested during 38 sport events. In addition, we
will offer athletes and officials the world's most historic venues, as
well,
including the stadium in Olympia, home of the ancient Games; the Panathinaiko
Stadium, in which the modern Games were reborn; the original route of
the Marathon; and a cycling course that travels beneath the Parthenon
and past some of Athens' most significant sites.
In placing
athletes and their events at the centre of our preparations, Athens has
embraced the original spirit and meaning of the Games. This will, we believe,
inspire this summer's Olympians to extraordinary performances. Our celebration
of the world's greatest athletes and Greece's Olympic tradition will be
powerful and compelling, and we look forward to welcoming the world to
an extraordinary Olympic Homecoming, in just 100 days".
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Pan-American
Duathlon Championship 2004
San Cristobal in the State of Tachira, Venezuela, will host the 2004 Pan-American
Duathlon Championship. The event will take place on the 3 and 4 of July,
2004. The Age Group event will take place on July 3 - beginning 8:45 am
and the Elite and U23 on July 4 at 9:00 am.
Registrations can be sent by email to the Triathlon Venezuela Federation President - presidente@fevetri.com. The deadline for registration is Thursday, July 1st.
The fee will be of USD $50 for Elite and U23; and US $40 for Age Groups athletes
A prize purse
of $5,000 USD is available. The athlete packages will be availabel for
pick up n Friday, July 2 from 9:00AM until 8:00PM in the Host Hotel. The
athletes meeting will take place at 7:00pm.
The 2004 South American Triathlon Championship will be held on July 18th in the city of Brasilia, Brazil.
The event will take place in Puente JK. The Age Group event will begin at 7.30am and the elite event at 12:00am.
Registration
Registrations will be received until July 10th 2004. The cost is R$100,00
for Elite (national and foreigners) and R$80 for Age Groups categories.
Distances:
Elite
and Sub 23: 1.500 m Swim–40 km Cycling–Run 10 km
Category
20 years up: 1.500 m Swim–40 km Cycling–Run 10 km
14/15
and 16/19 years: 750 m Swim–20 km Cycling–Run 5 km
12/13
years: 375 m Swim–10 km Cycling–Run 2,5 km.
Prize
Purse
The prize purse will be USD $10.000
Host Hotel
The race official hotels are the Manhattam Plaza Hotel and the Kubtschek
Plaza Hotel.
Package
Pick Up
Package Pick up will take place Saturday 17 from 10:00am to 03:00pm,
the technical meeting will take place at 04:00pm.
Information
and contacts
For more information please visit the official website of Triathlon Brazilian
Confederation www.cbtri.org.br
2004
Pan-American Aquathlon Championship
The 2004 Pan American Aquathlon championship will take place on July 16th,
2004 in Brasilia, Brazil on the South Lake of Brasília.
The Age group race will begin at 10:00 am and the Elite races at 12:00am.
Registration
The cost for Elite athlete registraion is R $100 and the cost for Age
Group Athletes is R $80,00. Registration closes July 10, 2004.
Distances
Elite
and U23: Run 2,5 km–1 km Swim–Run 2,5 km
Age Group : Run 2,5 km–1 km Swim–Run 2,5 km
16 - 19 years: Run 2,5 km–1 km Swim–Run 2,5 km
12/13 and 14/15 years: 1.250 Run m–500 m Swim–1.250 Run.
A prize purse of $3500 USD is available.
Race package pick up will take place Thursday July 15th, from 10:00am - 3:00pm, and the technical meeting will be at 04:00pm.
For more information please visit the Triathlon Brazilian Confederation, in website www.cbtri.org.br.
New ETU Rankings have been posted to the ETU website
Rasmus Henning from Denmark and Mieke Suys from Belgium are the new leaders of the ETU European rankings. The Eurpean Championships and the Championships of the Small States of Europe have been included in the 2004 rankings. The year-end points from 2003 have been divided by 4 for inclusion in the new rankings.
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