Channel 9’s next big school camp out heads to the Old Dart later this year for the London 2012 Olympic Games. There’s all the usual suspects, including the Today team and various athletes now working as commentators – and Eddie, of course. It looks like it’ll be massive. From the press release:
In 142 days all eyes will be on London for the greatest sporting event in the world as more than 10,500 athletes from over 200 countries descend on the city for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Wide World of Sports, the Nine Network’s award-winning team with a reputation for top-class sporting broadcasts, will bring Olympic joy, heartache, celebration and tears to the Australian television audience for more than 18 hours a day across 16 days of elite competition.
The Games of the XXX Olympiad will go live from Saturday, July 28 (AEST) at 6.00am with the Opening Ceremony and end on Monday, August 13 (AEST) when the Olympic Flame is extinguished at the Closing Ceremony. During that time, Wide World of Sports will broadcast more than 300 hours of Olympic Games action on Channel Nine, which will also be simulcast in High Definition on GEM.
The lead-up to the London 2012 Olympic Games has now begun on Nine. And for eight weeks from May 27, Nine will count down to London 2012 as Wide World of Sports presents Road to London, featuring Australian Olympic hopefuls in their quest to compete in London and bring home a medal. Throughout 2012, Nine’s Sunday morning flagship program, Wide World of Sports, will take viewers behind the scenes as our athletes prepare for London.
Nine’s Olympic Games coverage commences with the London Eve show on Friday, July 27 (AEST) bringing the excitement and anticipation to fever pitch, before the live and exclusive broadcast of the spectacular Opening Ceremony.
Wide World of Sports has 30 years’ experience in bringing great sporting broadcasts to a national audience. Nine’s coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games will be the biggest sporting telecast of an Olympic Games hosted outside Australia.
Athletes will compete in 26 sports and 39 disciplines, with 300 gold medals up for grabs. Nine will showcase the most memorable moments of the Games and capture all the passion, pain and celebration as the world’s best athletes vie for gold.
A top team of hosts and expert commentators will bring the Games to Australian viewers. Hosting the coverage for Nine in London is the face and voice of Wide World of Sports, Ken Sutcliffe, and joining him are Karl Stefanovic, Leila McKinnon, Mark Nicholas and Cameron Williams. Leila McKinnon and Eddie McGuire will host Nine’s live and exclusive coverage of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.
Today’s Ben Fordham and Melbourne weekend newsreader Alicia Loxley will present regular Olympic Games updates throughout the coverage from London.
On competition days, Nine will deliver 14.5 hours of continuous live coverage from 6.30pm until 9.00am the following morning on London Live. Then from 9.00am to 11.00am each morning, you can see all the day’s highlights in London Gold, which will be replayed from 4.00pm-6.00pm every afternoon.
Nine’s expert commentary team for London 2012 includes nine Olympic gold medallists, revered former Olympic athletes, and distinguished sports broadcasters, who will call all the action. The Wide World of Sports exclusive swimming commentary team comprises Olympic gold medallists Grant Hackett and Giaan Rooney plus Ray Warren, Australia’s most accomplished sports commentator.
The Olympic commentary team includes James Tomkins (Rowing), Kerri Pottharst (Beach Volleyball), Scott McGrory (Cycling), Debbie Watson (Water Polo), Andrew Gaze (Basketball), Jane Flemming (Athletics), Melinda Gainsford Taylor (Athletics), Michael Slater (Diving), Andrew Voss (Weightlifting), James Brayshaw (Rowing) and Eddie McGuire (Marathon and Triathlon).
Nine News will bring viewers unrivalled coverage of all the stories from the Games. A team of reporters and camera crews will cover the Games around the clock with unparalleled access to the athletes village and Olympic venues to get the stories behind the magic moments.
Karl Stefanovic, Lisa Wilkinson and the Today crew are also heading to London 2012. In the week leading up to the XXX Olympiad, Today will broadcast from the heart of London as it welcomes the world to the greatest show on earth. As well as bringing all the latest news from the Australian camp, Karl, Lisa, Georgie Gardner, Ben Fordham, Richard Wilkins, Richard Reid and Steve Jacobs will showcase the history, culture and excitement of the Olympics.
For a full week, Today will go behind the scenes as London makes final preparations for the Games and meet the athletes going for gold, as well as the families who’ll be cheering for them. The week will culminate with all the highlights of the Australian Olympic team reception, and the announcement of the flag-bearer for the Opening Ceremony.
Nine was there when the Olympics came to Melbourne in 1956 and 56 years later it will be there again for London 2012. Can IAAF Athlete of the Year and Nine’s Olympic Ambassador Sally Pearson go one better than Beijing and bring home the gold? Our best hopes among the men in the pool will lie with 2011 world 100m freestyle champion James “the missile” Magnussen. He goes to London as the superstar of our swim squad, but will he bring home the gold?
Will Australian pole vault gold medallist Steve Hooker retain his Olympic title? The Kookaburras are the reigning World Cup, Champions Trophy and Commonwealth champions in hockey – can they add Olympic gold medallists to that impressive list? Will Australia dominate at the velodrome? Are the experts right in predicting Australia will grab three gold medals in sailing? And how many medals can Australia lift from the pool?
Watch history being made at the XXX Olympiad on Nine and come on a trip of a lifetime as we take you to the Olympic city for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
In 142 days all eyes will be on London for the greatest sporting event in the world as more than 10,500 athletes from over 200 countries descend on the city for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Wide World of Sports, the Nine Network’s award-winning team with a reputation for top-class sporting broadcasts, will bring Olympic joy, heartache, celebration and tears to the Australian television audience for more than 18 hours a day across 16 days of elite competition.
The Games of the XXX Olympiad will go live from Saturday, July 28 (AEST) at 6.00am with the Opening Ceremony and end on Monday, August 13 (AEST) when the Olympic Flame is extinguished at the Closing Ceremony. During that time, Wide World of Sports will broadcast more than 300 hours of Olympic Games action on Channel Nine, which will also be simulcast in High Definition on GEM.
The lead-up to the London 2012 Olympic Games has now begun on Nine. And for eight weeks from May 27, Nine will count down to London 2012 as Wide World of Sports presents Road to London, featuring Australian Olympic hopefuls in their quest to compete in London and bring home a medal. Throughout 2012, Nine’s Sunday morning flagship program, Wide World of Sports, will take viewers behind the scenes as our athletes prepare for London.
Nine’s Olympic Games coverage commences with the London Eve show on Friday, July 27 (AEST) bringing the excitement and anticipation to fever pitch, before the live and exclusive broadcast of the spectacular Opening Ceremony.
Wide World of Sports has 30 years’ experience in bringing great sporting broadcasts to a national audience. Nine’s coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games will be the biggest sporting telecast of an Olympic Games hosted outside Australia.
Athletes will compete in 26 sports and 39 disciplines, with 300 gold medals up for grabs. Nine will showcase the most memorable moments of the Games and capture all the passion, pain and celebration as the world’s best athletes vie for gold.
A top team of hosts and expert commentators will bring the Games to Australian viewers. Hosting the coverage for Nine in London is the face and voice of Wide World of Sports, Ken Sutcliffe, and joining him are Karl Stefanovic, Leila McKinnon, Mark Nicholas and Cameron Williams. Leila McKinnon and Eddie McGuire will host Nine’s live and exclusive coverage of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.
Today’s Ben Fordham and Melbourne weekend newsreader Alicia Loxley will present regular Olympic Games updates throughout the coverage from London.
On competition days, Nine will deliver 14.5 hours of continuous live coverage from 6.30pm until 9.00am the following morning on London Live. Then from 9.00am to 11.00am each morning, you can see all the day’s highlights in London Gold, which will be replayed from 4.00pm-6.00pm every afternoon.
Nine’s expert commentary team for London 2012 includes nine Olympic gold medallists, revered former Olympic athletes, and distinguished sports broadcasters, who will call all the action. The Wide World of Sports exclusive swimming commentary team comprises Olympic gold medallists Grant Hackett and Giaan Rooney plus Ray Warren, Australia’s most accomplished sports commentator.
The Olympic commentary team includes James Tomkins (Rowing), Kerri Pottharst (Beach Volleyball), Scott McGrory (Cycling), Debbie Watson (Water Polo), Andrew Gaze (Basketball), Jane Flemming (Athletics), Melinda Gainsford Taylor (Athletics), Michael Slater (Diving), Andrew Voss (Weightlifting), James Brayshaw (Rowing) and Eddie McGuire (Marathon and Triathlon).
Nine News will bring viewers unrivalled coverage of all the stories from the Games. A team of reporters and camera crews will cover the Games around the clock with unparalleled access to the athletes village and Olympic venues to get the stories behind the magic moments.
Karl Stefanovic, Lisa Wilkinson and the Today crew are also heading to London 2012. In the week leading up to the XXX Olympiad, Today will broadcast from the heart of London as it welcomes the world to the greatest show on earth. As well as bringing all the latest news from the Australian camp, Karl, Lisa, Georgie Gardner, Ben Fordham, Richard Wilkins, Richard Reid and Steve Jacobs will showcase the history, culture and excitement of the Olympics.
For a full week, Today will go behind the scenes as London makes final preparations for the Games and meet the athletes going for gold, as well as the families who’ll be cheering for them. The week will culminate with all the highlights of the Australian Olympic team reception, and the announcement of the flag-bearer for the Opening Ceremony.
Nine was there when the Olympics came to Melbourne in 1956 and 56 years later it will be there again for London 2012. Can IAAF Athlete of the Year and Nine’s Olympic Ambassador Sally Pearson go one better than Beijing and bring home the gold? Our best hopes among the men in the pool will lie with 2011 world 100m freestyle champion James “the missile” Magnussen. He goes to London as the superstar of our swim squad, but will he bring home the gold?
Will Australian pole vault gold medallist Steve Hooker retain his Olympic title? The Kookaburras are the reigning World Cup, Champions Trophy and Commonwealth champions in hockey – can they add Olympic gold medallists to that impressive list? Will Australia dominate at the velodrome? Are the experts right in predicting Australia will grab three gold medals in sailing? And how many medals can Australia lift from the pool?
Watch history being made at the XXX Olympiad on Nine and come on a trip of a lifetime as we take you to the Olympic city for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can we see the actual games, and athletes, rather than the endless commentators, panel discussions and in-house back patting. Since commercial TV took over from ABC coverage years ago, it seems we see less of the athletes and more of the commentators and adverts. Channel 9, this is your chance to SHINE!! Thank you, maggie.
Worst ever olympics commentary by Eddie McGuire – thank goodness for his co-hosts. Well done Eddie for knowing Crown Prince Alfred – one mention from the whole Olympics crowd!! Very disappointing,
why can’t we see the full rowing races? All we get to see is the last couple of minutes? There are more rowers than swimmers, and our rowers are really doing well. More stories about who these athletes are would be a real change. The talent and hard work these athletes have put in is amazing. They just seem to continually get on with the job. We hear that someone racing is a world champion and we don’t know anything about them. Get some researches on the job Channel 9 and give some reeal stories. 49 Rowers I think deserve better coverage than what we have been seeing.
Could you please tell me where we can find out when you are showing equestrian events on TV. There are no details of what is on. We can not all sit in front of the TV all day and night. Thanks
Hi Nola – Unfortunately Channel 9 aren’t publishing when the events they’re covering are on, just which events may be covered on which night.
Please Gian can you stop with the mens relay loss. These guys are trying to get on with their next swims and you’re still asking what happened. Well I was shattered too but they got beat and who really knows what happened, maybe Maggy should’ve swam the anchor leg…..anyway I’m looking forward to now watching him swim his next races so please let them get over it and on with it!!!!!!. I’m sure they do need reminding each time they go to swim a heat and they probably don’t appreciate you hounding them about it, so please let them swim their next finals and cheer them on for their individual efforts!!!
All our athletes should be proud of their efforts at making the team in the first place and their performances in their individual sports in London.But this latest fad of “I’m devastated, I only won a silver medal ,or a bronze medal at the greatest show on earth,” is an absolute joke.Get a grip and change your attitude before Rio .If someone loses their child to cancer, THAT is devastating, not winning a silver medal.Some of you people should take a leaf out of Jessica Fox’s book, and enjoy the moment and what you have achieved.
Dallas
I agree with you Dallas, and I think so do most Australians. These people who “only won a silver medal’ should start to think. how privileged they are. First that have a talent that us mere mortals don’t have, but our taxes have helped pay for their training. We sit at home and hang on their every word. They are there representing Us (meaning our country) so having them saying they are devestated to only win silver or bronze I feel is in a way disrespecting every Australian who supports them. For goodnes sake guys you are respresenting your country ( and us) in the highest sporting event in the world. You raced or played and did your best. To get second means you are second in the world on that day. Can’t you be happy for that ?.I agree, to see the rowers etc. who were happy with their medals and spoke so well gave us all joy.
I know the press and the media put enormous pressure on all competitors, but winning gold is not the be all and end all. It is how you played the game. So be good sports and be happy that you have at least won a medal. You were beaten by a better competitor on the day. That’s no shame , but a fact of life. Lynne
Isn’t it a shame that Channel 9 never give a chance to watch any of the sports we never see. Just saw one horse jump and they switch back to a marathon. At this stage of the marathon you can’t see who’ s who anyway. Who need to listen to Eddie’s guide to London. Channel 9 have llost it these game!
channel 9. what a disgrace the coverage of the games is. surely there must have been something on in the middle of the day, not just the marathon and the odd horse jump. e.g. javelin, high jump, long jump, discus, shot put, weight lifting etc. why do we have to have repeats of so many things? hopefully next time the games go to a channel that will show the viewers what they want to see.
I have given up watching the games on 9. The games of the 20 second grab, and loads of mindless gabble by the commentators. I am so disappointed Channel 9. We didn’t get to see anything much of the sports that mean the olympics. Mindless hours of road races and girls marathon and Eddie’s voice and none of the diving, with the exception of a 20 second grab of the Australian boy diving. a 20 second grab of the Australian Show jumping, None of any of the others to compare. Certainly none of the shooting, archery ,badminton, Who won the men’s voilleyball last night againt the Polish? We never saw the end, and never likely to know the results. I will get the rest of the games from the Channel 7 , 10 or 2 news thank you. Channel 9 should never be given the games again. The commentators look like they really don’t want to be there. No stories behind the athletes or their families, or interviewing those who tried their hearts out and didn’t win a medal. We have so many athletes over there who gave their all and the media, couldn’t care unless they are a swimming celebrity or someone we see all the time. Shame on you channel 9 and shame on all the media for only focussing on gold. Channel 9 is off in my house.
once again Eddie spouted nothing but rubbish last night. who cares about a back yard swimming pool that we had to hear about not once but twice. he talked about the triathlon, wich was a small picture in the top left corner of the screen and the main picture showed half a dozen people on the running track doing absolutely nothing. and channel 9 expects people to watch this ribbish. what a jole.
I have a school project on ” how Australia went in the London Olympic Games 2012” and I cant find anything about the sports we competed in its a waste of time and I hate waiting for things I cant find info and I belived in in this website. I have had a bad day and I am not happy! By The Way this is from before the Olypics started!
FIX YOUR WEBSITE!
Hi Isabelle – thanks for stopping by. Yes, this is a post from some time ago, thus the posting date at the top showing as much, and the content talking about the Olympics in the future tense. If you’re after results, have you tried the official IOC website? They’d have everything you’re after I’m sure.