London 2012: BBC will cover every Olympic sport

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BBC to cover London 2012 Olympic Games across TV, radio and the internet with more than 2,000 hours of live sport

Sports fans who missed out in the Olympics ticket lottery need not fear missing their favourite event after the BBC unveiled plans to cover every sport from every venue on every day of the London 2012 Games.

With up to 12 sports taking place simultaneously on many days of next year's Olympic Games, it will be the corporation's most ambitious coverage of an Olympics to date with more than 2,000 hours of live sport on the BBC website.

The BBC has launched an online guide to help people plan their viewing, highlighting "ones to watch" and "medal events". It will be updated with more information including when and where British teams and individuals will be competing.

Dave Gordon, the BBC's head of major events, said: "If you want to spend all day watching the water polo or fencing or taekwondo or swimming, or any combination of the 26 sports, for the first time you can. The choice is yours rather than ours.

"As host nation broadcaster, this online guide is the first step in realising our commitment to making every sport from every venue where it's happening on every day of the games available to the British public.

"From the start of the early morning action until the end of competition just before midnight, there will be live BBC Sport online coverage. You can look at the big picture each day, planning for those not to be missed events."

The BBC's blanket coverage of the games – across TV, radio and the internet – will not be entirely all-encompassing, however.

"For sports where there are multiple fields of play – such as tennis from Wimbledon and badminton from Wembley – there will be coverage whenever there is play although there will not be coverage of the action on every court as there will be a huge demand to showcase all the other sports at other venues," the corporation said.

For some sports, it seems, there really will be no substitute for being there.

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Josh Halliday 26 Jul, 2011

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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/26/bbc-to-cover-every-sport-london-2012-games
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