London Olympic organizers begin a series of test events this month for next year's Summer Games, inviting international athletes to experience many venues for the first time.
The organizing committee said Friday that its 42-event test program begins May 30 with an invitational road race to test the marathon and walk routes, which include a stretch along The Mall in central London.
A total of 150,000 tickets will be on sale across several events to help appraise ticketing technology, although many will be free to the public.
"This is a dress rehearsal for us, but the public of course will see the rehearsal not the dress. It will look and feel quite different (to the Olympics)," London 2012 chief executive Paul Deighton said.There will testing across 26 venues, with a basketball invitational tournament and BMX supercross World Cup running concurrently in mid-August as the first events in the Olympic Park in east London.
There will be 3,000 tickets on sale for each of the basketball and BMX events.
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