Ahead of the 2012 London Olympic Games, a detailed testing programme has been established with judo’s International Test Event due to take place at ExCeL London on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 December.

The focus for judo is to test the sporting field of play; the results, timing and scoring systems and how teams work together.

LOCOG (London Organising Committee of Olympic Games and Paralympic Games) will be replicating day three (-57kg, -73kg) and day five (-70kg, -90kg) of the Olympic programme. Teams have been invited to enter one athlete per category except Great Britain who can enter more.

The competition starts at 09:30 each day with an expected finish time of 17:00 with a 90 min break from 12:30 - 14:00.

LOCOG expects around 100 athletes, 50 officials, 30 national technical officials, 39 international technical officials and 90 volunteers to join the Judo Team to make the test event run smoothly.

There are no tickets available for the event but if you’re interested in attending please contact judo@london2012.com in advance as you will not be allowed access on the day.

As it is not an IJF/EJU event but a LOCOG one there is no official broadcast or live streaming.

For all further enquiries please contact judo@london2012.com

British Olympic Test Event team