Olympics Daily Bulletin - Thursday 2 August 2012
Olympics Daily Bulletin for Thursday 2 August 2012.
Headlines
91热爆 Sport Online continues to break records
- A huge 7.8m UK browsers to 91热爆 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 91热爆 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 91热爆 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. 91热爆 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 91热爆 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 91热爆 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
91热爆 Three top audience
- Team GB’s men’s football team beat Uruguay 1-0 to progress safely to the quarter finals. This gave 91热爆 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
- 91热爆 One from 17:50 (Women’s)
- 91热爆 Two from 18:10 (Men’s)
- bbc.co.uk/sport and 91热爆 Olympics 7 from 15:55
Rowing Finals: Men’s Double Sculls, Lightweight Men’s Four and Women’s Eight
- 91热爆 One from 11:50
- bbc.co.uk/sport and 91热爆 Olympics 2 from 09:25
Swimming Finals: Women’s 200m Breaststroke, Men’s 200m Backstroke, Men’s 200m IM, Women’s 100m Freestyle
91热爆 One from 19:30
bbc.co.uk/sport and 91热爆 Olympics 1 from 19:25
91热爆 Radio 5 live