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Super Sunday awaits Bolt as Olympics schedule revealed

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Usain Bolt will bid for Olympic glory in London on a golden Sunday after organisers published the full competition schedule for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

The 100 metres, the blue riband event at the Olympics, and won in 2008 by Jamaican speedster Bolt will take place on August 5. There is unlikely to be any British challenge to Bolt on on the track, but the home nation could be celebrating before he steps foot on the track as the heptathlon is one of the first athletics events to take place and Jessica Ennis is the strong favourite to take glory in the event that will take place on August 3 and 4.

Ennis has talked about bidding for glory in the 100m hurdles and the schedule hands her the chance, as it is due to start on August 6. World triple jump champion and Londoner Phillips Idowu will bid for glory on August 9.

The first event of the games will take place two days before the opening ceremony and will be 150 miles away from London, as a women's football match will get the action underway in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on July 25.

Following the opening ceremony, the action kicks into gear with 21 sports getting underway on July 28 - the day the first medals will be decided, including cycling's men's road race which will finish on the Mall in central London.

"This is a really big moment, a huge moment," said London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe. "In this project, every day you get closer, every day it becomes more of a living creature. "In my own experience as a competitor this is the point that it suddenly becomes very real. I remember this point in the build-up to Los Angeles, and suddenly realising I was going to be running seven races in nine days.

"We are now getting to the business end of the project and we know from the number of people who have signed up for ticket information that there is a real hunger from all parts of the country to be there.

"Some 2.2 million people are going to be emailed tomorrow with the schedule so this is also the moment when you start asking the public to start planning their Games. We have given them the ticket prices and now the schedule so this is their opportunity to go away and figure out what they want to watch and when.

"This is the greatest show on earth and these will be the greatest tickets on earth."

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