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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.

The London Olympics (should be ə-'lim-pik) are less than one hundred days away. Across the world, many competitors still have to qualify for the sixteen(k感觉没怎么听到） days of competition. Others are entering the final weeks of training.

Three hundred thousand people are expected（有点儿偏i：） to travel to the British capital for the Summer Olympic Games. The opening ceremonies are on July twenty-seventh.

Wednesday marked the（漏读？） one-hundred-day point. Sebastian Coe -- the British runner who won two Olympic gold medals -- is chairman of the London 2012 organizing（卷舌，重音好像有点儿off） committee.