London 2012 Olympics Live Streaming

The peacock logo National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is America’s most popular commercial broadcasting television network and radio network. Located at New York with the slogan “Every day is full of color, More Colorful” it has 10 owned operated stations and almost 200 affiliates in the USA and its territories. NBC is still part of the company NBC universal which is a joint venture of Comcast and General Electric. Comcast Corporation is until now the largest home internet service provider, telephone service and cable operator in the USA. They provide internet and telephone cable television services. Comcast is still located at Pennsylvania. These two big providers NBC and Comcast will be the official and remain to be the Olympic Network, actually up to 2020 games. London games will begin next year July 27 till August 12. NBC won the bid for the official Olympic network. The network plans to show every event live even in raw video streaming but the network will still use that traditional method of human interest features and taped competition.

NBC Sports Chief Mark Lazarus said "I think we will likely bring some more streaming to the marketplace in real time, but those plans have been thought through," Lazarus said of 2012. "And frankly in the last 15 or so days since we've been putting this together [the 2014-2020 presentation] we've been focused on this bid."  But to Lazarus, the sports fan of today demands closeness and that doesn't have to be mutually exclusive to highly stylized broadcasts aired when people are most likely to be sitting in front of the TV. The network plans to show every event live starting in 2014. That approach will extend to two years earlier in London, as NBC experiments to figure out what works best. Still to be determined for next year is how exactly the live coverage of those porch events that anchor main time will be presented earlier in the day.

The Official London 2012 Olympic Posters

Presenting the 12 poster of 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics games. Each poster has a different interpretation from the 12 artists that made it.  The Olympic posters were designed by Martin Creed, Anthea Hamilton, Howard Hodgkin, Chris Ofili, Bridget Riley and Rachel Whiteread. While the Paralympic posters were designed by Fiona Banne, Michael Craig-Martin, Tracey Emin, Gary Hume, Sarah Morris, and Bob and Roberta Smith. These official posters were artistically and uniquely made for this event this is a once in a lifetime event in London so their making the most of it. From arts to buildings, transportations, parks, ceremony and their own athlete to represent their country. London is almost done for the preparation next year they only have 262 days to prepare the event. All of us were excited even me, by the start of the year I’m sure updates from all over the world will begin to pop out the news. As of now London is unveiling their progress slowly the medals are officially shown the tickets are already out. So almost ready, I guess the days can tell of how fast approaching the Olympic is. 

The London 2012 Olympics Medals

David Watkins was designer of the Summer Olympics in London next year. The medals were presented by Her Royal Highness, the princess Royal and London 2012 Chairman Sebastian Coe along with the international Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge and the Coordination Commission chairman Denis Oswald. This will be the greatest achievement of the athletes in 2012 Olympics and their going to bring this home in their country to symbolize victory. The event will produce more than 2,000 copies for 302 ceremonies that will last 16 days of competition. The Olympic medal symbols on front and back juxtapose the goddess Nike, for the spirit and tradition of the Games, and the River Thames, for the city of London. On the back of the medals is the 2012 branding, representing the modern city as a jewel-like, geological growth. The logo is shown against a 'pick-up-sticks' grid which radiates the energy of athletes and a sense of pulling together. The River Thames runs through the middle as a celebratory ribbon. The bowl-like background recalls ancient amphitheatres, with a square balancing the circle to give a sense of place. The sport and discipline is engraved on the rim of each medal, all of which will be produced by the Royal Mint at Llantrisant, South Wales.

Coe said: “I hope that seeing the design of the London 2012 Olympic medals will be a source of inspiration for the thousands of athletes around the world who are counting down the year before they compete at the greatest show on earth. All of our preparations are focused on ensuring the athletes are at the heart of the Games, and I believe that through this rigorous process the panel of experts have selected an artist and a design for medals that all athletes would be proud to own.”

London 2012 Olympic Flame

From East Midlands to East of England, London, Northern Ireland, North East, North West, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales/ Cymru, West Midlands,  Yorkshire and finally Humber. The Olympic flame will travel through these places. It will travel within an hour of 95% of people in UK to shine a light on the best their area has to offer such as landscapes and popular urban areas. The host towns and cities are really working on precisely the festival to how best involve the people as well as the tourist to join the celebration. Torch Relay evening celebration will mark a mixture of entertainment and shows in each community that will relay the flame. The flame relay will start on May 19, 2012 Saturday at Land’s End. This ritual is just part of the original Olympic tradition of how will lit the flame. In ancient time in Greece, it is lit from the sun’s rays at the temple of Hera in Olympia. After a short relay in Greece the flame will now travel to the new host city at another ceremony, where it is transferred from one torchbearer to another spreading the message of peace, unity and friendship among all nations in the world. The journey will then be end as the last torchbearer will light the cauldron at the Olympics Games Opening Ceremony in the Olympic Stadium, stating the official start of the Games. The flame will only extinguish at the final day of the games in the closing ceremony. As of the latest update till now, there are many Torchbearer candidates, it is being voted as the way it is traditionally of who will be the lucky person to light the final Torch in London 2012.

These are the Olympic Torches way back from Berlin 1936, all in all there are 21 Olympic Torches including the latest one from London 2012.

Get it now!! London Olympic 2012 Tickets

Not yet reserve? Well here’s your chance to sign up in London 2012 Olympic Tickets.  Olympic tickets have been owed already. During this time from the winter of 2011 any Olympic tickets which remain unsold will become available for sale in their website which will have a first come first serve basis. Paralympic tickets will be accepting applicants from September 9, 2011 between 9am on Friday and September 26 2011 at 6pm Monday. When applying for tickets you need to be at least 16 years old and above. When you apply it online you need to be a resident of UK or any European country. The application process is just simple but with many sporting event and venues, I merely suggest that you take time to think up your plans including to whom are going to be with discussed and plan it well. You must organize when choosing your different kinds of sessions like the preliminary rounds, medal and weekend sessions. You can only submit one application. There is no advantage when you submit it in the first day or the last day but to avoid rush just don’t submit it on the last day. There are different kinds of tickets available these are the full price, senior, young person, wheelchair space, general admission, reserved and day pass. Each session ticket has a limit, which will be clearly specified. If you’re no longer using the Olympic Games tickets that you have been allocate, you will be able to sell it at the official London 2012 ticket resale program next year. This is the only authorize resale program from people offering tickets for resale. Olympic tickets are non-transferable and must not be sold or advertised for sale on the internet, newspaper or anywhere else but only in the resale program. Please be cautious and be more wary with those other websites selling tickets online to avoid scams.  

2012 Olympic Souvenirs

From shirts to jackets, head caps, bags, toys, notebooks, wallets, mugs, cups, teapots, bowls, badges, pens, key rings, jewelries and even laptop skins. These are the exclusive and limited souvenirs of the upcoming London 2012 Olympics. The designs include Wenlock and Mandeville’s figures; The London Flag that has 2012 caption, The Olympic Logo itself in different colors, The 29 sports to be played and for the toys there were miniatures of official Route Bus, Taxi, Tube Train and Airplane. You can get these stuffs through online or when you get a chance to go to London there were a lot of shops already there selling these products and more items to collect in the event. I recommend you to personally go to London, not just for these things but also to take pleasure in the prestigious celebration, to support your own country and to witness the sporting event. You will never regret getting there because the major gala comes only in every 4 years which will be aired in all over the world, me personally really want to go to London next year I’m really really crossing my fingers.

One Year to GO!

 

Celebrating 365 days to go and counting exactly 1 year before the prestigious 2012 Olympics in London. Every athlete in all over the world is preparing to compete. The host country is busy too preparing more and exceeding of what people more to expect in the event. The stadiums are almost finish they’ve been testing them in every sports, as of now they are gathering 10,000 performers to perform in the opening and closing ceremony. Volunteers must be 18 years old and be able to perform as dancers, actors, percussionists and general all-round performers in the ceremonies. You must be able to participate the two auditions in this coming November and early December. Director Danny Boyle and Kim Gavin are the one who’s in charge in the ceremony.

Tom Daley dives into the diving pool inside the Aquatics Centre, celebrating one year to go, Britain’s youngest competitor in the 2008 Summer Olympics, by then he was just 14 years old. Last 2009 at the age of 15 he won the FINA (Fédération Internationale de Natation) world championship.