New Sports for 2016 Olympics at ATR Newsmaker Breakfast in Beijing

8/18/2008

(ATR) Leaders of golf, squash, baseball and softball will explain why they belong on the program for the 2016 Olympics at the Around the Rings Newsmaker Breakfast on August 19 at the McDonald’s on the Beijing Olympic Green.

Dmitry Chernyshenko of Sochi 2014 was scheduled, but was forced to cancel because of a scheduling conflict.

Invitations have been issued to all seven eligible federations: baseball, golf, karate, roller sport, rugby, softball and squash

World Squash Federation President Jahangir Khan, International Golf Federation's Ty Votaw, International Softball Federation's Don Porter and International Baseball Federation president Harvey Schiller are confirmed for the panel.

The host is Ed Hula, editor of Around the Rings.

Media is invited to the breakfast, which starts at 8:30am and end at 9:30am.

The McDonald’s is located at the north end of the Olympic Green.

Around the Rings will provide transportation from the Intercontinental Hotel adjacent to MPC from 7:45 am to 8:30am.

Please contact Jan McDonald at 158 1146 2401 for details about transport or other questions about the event.

The ATR Newsmaker Breakfasts present opinion-makers and leaders of the Olympic Movement in an informal, question and answer setting over coffee, juice and McDonald’s breakfast offerings.

The breakfast take place at the 2,000 square meter McDonald’s on the Olympic Green, the biggest in the world for the company.

The final breakfast is scheduled for August 23 with an unprecedented joint appearance by the four cities campaigning for the 2016 Summer Olympics

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