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Olympic Preview Part 3: McDonalds Supersizes Olympic Park Dining

World’s largest McDonalds at London Olympic ParkMcDonalds, an official sponsor of London 2012, will open their largest store in the world at the city’s Olympic Park. The supersized venue is designed to seat more than 1,500 eaters. 

The Chicago area-based sponsor, which will also have eateries in the athlete's village and the main press center, plans to serve more than 50,000 Big Macs during the Games.

The food venues are all temporary, built only for the 17-day event. All of the structures are scheduled to be dismantled at the end of August, with the furniture and fittings set to be reused in other McDonalds around England.    

McDonald's says they will serve 1.7 million customers during the Olympics, with the food choices looking largely identical to the fast food giant's fare anywhere else in the world.

It will be interesting to see how much of the fast food is consumed by actual Olympians, in the athlete’s village venue.

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Bruce has traveled the world, both working for and covering a wide array of the sports world’s greatest events. Below is a sampling of the level of experience and perspective he brings to ifollosports.com.

OLYMPIC GAMES:  
Munich 1972, Montreal 1976, Los Angeles 1984, Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Salt Lake City 2002, Beijing 2008     
*Editor of the Official Report of the 1984 Olympic Games

PAN AMERICAN GAMES:   
Caracas 1983, Indianapolis 1987, Havana 1991, Mar del Plata 1995, Winnipeg 1999



WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES:   
Zagreb 1987, Duisberg 1989, Sheffield 1991, Buffalo 1993, Fukuoka 1995, Sicily 1997, Palma de Mallorca 1999 

USA TRACK AND FIELD:     
World Championships (Helsinki 1983), World Junior Championships (Athens 1986), World Cup (Rome 1981), World Cup (Havana 1992), Pan American Junior Championships (Barqisimeto 1982, Orlando 1986)  Editor of USATF annual calendar project (1980-1991) and Cross Country handbook (1979-1991) 

WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC: 
World Baseball Classics in 2006 and 2009.

ASSOCIATED PRESS     
Correspondent covering the Los Angeles Lakers and UCLA Bruins basketball, track and field, and swimming 1977-1989
  

A California native, Bruce is a 
graduate of UCLA and resides in Venice Beach.

 

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