Olympics Daily Bulletin - Thursday 2 August 2012
Olympics Daily Bulletin for Thursday 2 August 2012.
Headlines
鶹 Sport Online continues to break records
- A huge 7.8m UK browsers to 鶹 Sport Online yesterday, and 10.4m Global browsers breaking 10m for the first time
- The top stream of the day, with 567,000 requests, on the 鶹 Sport Website was for the Men’s Cycling Time Trial when Bradley Wiggins won Gold and Chris Froome won Bronze
- The top clip of the day was the badminton story “Fans upset by doubles tactics” with 427,000 requests to view
Peak audience of the day
- Swimming remains the sport delivering the highest peaks of the day. This time it was the Michael Jamieson silver medal in the Men's 200m Breaststroke Final. 9.5m watched on 鶹 One at 7.35pm with a further 193,000 on Red Button Olympics 4, making a peak total of 9.7m
Team GB Medals
- As well as the silver won in swimming, Team GB won a further 4 medals 2 of which were gold
- Rowing was up first with gold in the Women’s Quadruple Sculls for Helen Glover and Heather Stanning. 鶹 One coverage had a peak of 4.1m (at 12pm) with a further 322,000 watching on RB Olympics 2, making a peak total of 4.4m. But it was actually the Men’s Eight race where Team GB won bronze that saw the highest peak for Rowing with 4.5m watching on 鶹 One (at 12.30pm) with a further 387,000 watching on RB Olympics 2 to make a peak total of 4.9m
- The other medals came in the Men’s Cycling Time Trial which peaked at 6.2m on 鶹 One (at 4pm), this was also the peak share of the day at 50.3%. There was a further 648,000 (5.3%) watching on RB Olympics 3 to make a peak total audiences of 6.8m and a share of 55.6% at this time
鶹 Three top audience
- Team GB’s men’s football team beat Uruguay 1-0 to progress safely to the quarter finals. This gave 鶹 Three its top peak audience of the day and of the Olympics so far with 4.3m (at 9.35pm) and a strong audience of 987,000 watching on RB Olympics 2 to make a total peak to this football match of 5.3m
Coverage highlights for today
First Cycling Track Finals: Men’s and Women’s Team Sprint Finals
- 鶹 One from 17:50 (Women’s)
- 鶹 Two from 18:10 (Men’s)
- bbc.co.uk/sport and 鶹 Olympics 7 from 15:55
Rowing Finals: Men’s Double Sculls, Lightweight Men’s Four and Women’s Eight
- 鶹 One from 11:50
- bbc.co.uk/sport and 鶹 Olympics 2 from 09:25
Swimming Finals: Women’s 200m Breaststroke, Men’s 200m Backstroke, Men’s 200m IM, Women’s 100m Freestyle
鶹 One from 19:30
bbc.co.uk/sport and 鶹 Olympics 1 from 19:25
鶹 Radio 5 live