David Beckham flies out to Greece to meet Olympic torch

Arrival

Beckham at the ceremony will increase speculation that will be part of Team GB for football at the Olympics

not bother trying to keep David Beckham on the news. Two hours before Roy Hodgson has revealed the composition of his party for the final of Euro 2012 - the first major tournament for England has been listed since 1998, in which Beckham will not participate - was the announcement that Goldenballs will be arriving in Athens on Thursday to watch the ceremony in which the Olympic flame handed over to representatives of London 2012.

Beckham, who celebrated his 32nd birthday two weeks ago, won the gratitude of Sebastian Coe for his role in the campaign in London to win the Games this summer, and his arrival this week will do nothing to calm speculation that it will be one of three overage players on the team of Stuart Pearce Britain for the Olympic football tournament, in which most players must be under 23 years. The footballers of Great Britain won the gold medal at the first Games of the modern era in 1896, but have not taken part in recent years due to fear of the football authorities in Scotland, Wales Wales and Northern Ireland to enter a joint team would endanger its members a person of FIFA, the sport's world body government.

• There is intense debate on whether Beckham should be included in the team, almost certainly with his former colleague at Manchester United Ryan Giggs, 38. He was constant in his desire to take part, and extensive experience makes him an excellent candidate for the captaincy.
• earlier this week, Barack Obama met with Beckham and his LA Galaxy teammates, past winners of the U.S. Championship play-off. On Thursday, the former England captain will join the Princess Anne, president of the British Olympic Association, Hugh Robertson, Minister for the Olympics, Lord Coe and the Panathenaic Stadium, site of the 1896 Games. The flame arrives in the hands of Li Ning, Chinese gymnast who grew near the scene of the Bird's Nest in Beijing to light the cauldron for four years and Pyrros Dimas, the Olympic Games weighlifting champion, who was born in Albania the ethnic Greek parents, moved to Greece in 20 and won gold medals for their new home in Barcelona, ??Atlanta and Sydney. He went to the British representatives of the Hellenic Olympic Committee.

illuminated by the sun for a choreographic competition in Ancient Olympia last week, the flame arrived in Athens after a torch relay around Greece, including visits to Crete and the Turkish border. Despite the weather, only small groups of spectators came to see the riders wearing white uniforms through a city preoccupied with thoughts of financial ruin, while a herd of tourists stood in the midst of cool breeze mid way to the Acropolis, where the end of the torch carriers showed the steps to the Parthenon and a meeting with the dignitaries expected. A cauldron was lit, the torch will restart for the final ceremony at home.

Friday, Beckham and British officials will accompany the flame on its flight to RNAS Culdrose, near Penzance, where pilgrimages CV - initially in the hands of Ben Ainslie, an Olympic sailing champion multiple -. in another relay of the long and winding road before ending up in the Olympic Stadium in Stratford on July 27 for the opening ceremony

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