Release of the 2025 Final Leg Team Guide

 

RELEASE OF THE 2025 LETR FINAL LEG TEAM GUIDE

I am pleased to advise that the LETR Final Leg Team Guide has been compiled and is available for download.  This document is recommended reading for all team members.

The Team Guide is divided into the following sections:

• Introduction
• Welcome to the event
• Arriving in Turin
• Team Info  
• Team Lists (Numeric and Alphabetical)
• Team Contact List
• Team Statistics
• Accommodation
• Room Allocations
• Pairings
• Schedules
• Schedule Overview
• Daily Run Schedule
• Daily Map Routes (where we are going and how we get there)
• Cadences - the songs you sing
• Turin Arrivals (Alphabetical and Date and Time)
• Turin Departures (Alphabetical and Date and Time)

All of the documents are available in the Final Leg Portal where they can also be downloaded.  Please note that the document is 69 pages in length and almost 6mb in size.  You should consider downloading the document prior to your departure for Italy and placing it on your phone or tablet.

There are two options available to download the Team Guide:

1.  Click on the Team Guide Cover Image at the top of this blog post.
2. Go to the Final Leg Team Portal - you'll find the same image at the top of the page.

There is little doubt that I would have forgotten to include something - if this is the case, please let me know - but you've only got a few days before I depart.

Enjoy the read

Scott

New Year Reminders

 

59 DAYS TO GET EVERYTHING DONE

It is now less than 60 days before the whole Final Leg team will be assembled in Turin - preparing for the first Torch Run in Bardonecchia.

It is timely to remind everyone about some of the things that need to be completed.  Specifically, this post will be about the following:

TRAVEL NOTIFICATIONS

 PASSPORTS

PRE-EVENT CONFIRMATIONS

OPENING CEREMONY TICKETS

UNIFORM COSTS AND PAYMENTS

PRE & POST EVENT ACCOMMODATION

Let's get started

In order to be able to plan for the collection of team members arriving into Turin as well as providing transport to airports / railway stations on departure, we need to know your travel plans.  Of the 97 international members of the Final Leg team, we have received travel notifications from just 36 of you at this time.  I understand that there have been delays in arranging your travel, but you all need to get that completed as soon as possible and then complete the Travel Notifications Form.  

As well as telling us your time date and mode of travel into and out of Turin (which is used for transport arrangements) we've also asked for copies of your itineraries - this is so we can keep track of your progress should delays occur.

Click here to view the list of team members who have submitted Travel Notifications.

Click on the Travel Notification image above to complete the form.

As part of your registration for this event, we asked for passport information - this was because we predicted (correctly) that the Local Organizing Committee would want this information for their registration system.  

In many cases, team members' passports have expired since they completed their registration or they may not have had a passport at that time.

Please take the time now to check that your passport is current (and has an expiry date no earlier that 1 October 2025.  If this is the case and you recall submitting that information when registering, there is nothing more to be done.

If however, you have a new or renewed passport, please let us know.  29 team members have completed the Passport Update Form as of today.

Click here to view the list of those team members.

Click on the Passport Update image above to complete the form.

In December, we asked team members to complete a form to confirm that they were attending the pre-event activities in Athens and Rome.  There was an enormous response with 47 team members travelling to Athens and 53 being present in Rome.

Click here to view the list of those team members.

The confirmation process has now closed.

Last week, we announced that Opening Ceremony tickets for team members's families and friends were able to be requested.

To date 12 team members have requested tickets and 29 others have indicated that they don't require tickets.

Click here to view the list of those team members.

Click on the Opening Ceremony Tickets image above to complete the form.

You will all be aware that the cost of the Uniform Kit for Torch Runners is borne by their respective LETR Programs.  We've been a bit delayed this time around in working out the costs but that process will be completed very soon.  Once that occurs all Torch Runners will be advised of the cost of their Uniform Kit and how to make the payment.

You would all have seen a post by Mark McCorkle earlier this week where he advised that any team member intending on arriving in Turin early or staying afterwards could contact Nadia Giradi at the hotel to check on availability and book a room.

I did this myself this week and Nadia's response to my email was prompt.

However - I checked the price on Expedia at the same time and found the room rate was almost 30% cheaper than that offered by the hotel.

My advice is to do your research before booking.

That's it - all done

  

Flight Notification Form

SUBMISSION OF TRAVEL ITINERARIES

You should all by now be in the throes of booking your travel to Turin (whether it is direct or via Athens and/or Rome).  It is important that we have a record of the travel itineraries of all team members.  This will assist greatly in arranging transportation to and from the airport / train station to the hotel on your day of arrival and departure.

Once you have your plans settled and have received a copy of your travel itinerary, please complete the Flight Notification Form.  In preparation for that task, you should also ensure that you have access to a copy of your itinerary (preferably in pdf format, but an image of the itinerary will suffice).  If you have multiple itinerary documents (flights into Athens and out of Turin, plus a flight from Athens to Rome and a train from Rome to Turin), please attached all of them.

The questions in the form only relate to your final segment into Turin and your first segment out of Turin.  

You can access the Flight Notification Form either by clicking on the link shown below or by going to the Final Leg Portal - General Information - Travel Info.

In addition - if you have renewed your passport in the past twelve months, could you also complete the Passport Update Form which can be found below and also in the Travel Info section of the portal.

Thanks

Scott