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Throughout the period of the Games, which open on 12 February, the screens will show Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games material from 8.00am to 10.00pm each day. Highlights will run in the mornings and early afternoon before live coverage begins in the early evening until 10.00pm. Interspersed with the highlights packages and live coverage from the Games will be the screening of exclusive interviews with Vancouver 2010 hopefuls Eve Muirhead (Curling), David Murdoch (Curling), Jon Eley (Short Track Speed Skating), Sarah Lindsay (Short Track Speed Skating), Chemmy Alcott (Alpine Skiing) Gillian Cooke & Nicola Minichiello (Bobsleigh), Shelley Rudman & Kristan Bromley (Skeleton) and previous Winter Olympic contenders including Nicky Gooch, Robin Cousins and ‘Eddie the Eagle’ (Michael Edwards). In addition to this, inspiring athlete diaries from the Games will be supplied by Worldwide Partner Panasonic & the British Olympic Association and the BBC will show its Top 10 Winter Games moments. The Live Sites will also show highlights from ‘Canada CODE’, from the Vancouver Cultural Olympiad which will include a number of specially created films from the Canadian cultural community. They will be played on Live Site screens in Canada as a way to welcome the world to the host country of the 2010 Winter Games, and also on Live Sites across the UK to showcase the Vancouver Cultural Olympiad. Seb Coe, Chair of London 2012, said: “The Live Sites are a great opportunity for cities across the UK to enjoy the action, and, with our exclusive content, they will be a great destination for families to enjoy what we expect to be an exciting and inspiring Winter Games. This will be a real taste of what the public can expect for 2012.” The Big Screens are erected and run in partnership between LOCOG, the BBC and the various cities, in association with London 2012 partners BT and Lloyds TSB, supported by Cisco and the National Lottery through the Olympic Lottery Distributor. The screens carry a combination of local and national news, London 2012 updates, partner films and local community focused output such as university graduations or local art projects. During the period of the Vancouver Games the screens will be dressed in London 2012 branding. There are currently 18 London 2012 Live Sites located in Bristol, Cardiff, Middlesborough, Norwich, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Swansea, Waltham Forest, Bradford, Derby, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Swindon, Edinburgh, Leicester, Dover and Woolwich. At Games-time in 2012 it is hoped there will be a national network of screens – both permanent and temporary – which will enable local communities to gather and watch London 2012 events. |
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For further information please contact the London 2012 Press Office on +44 (0)203 2012 100 or visit the website at www.london2012.com. Find out the latest from London 2012 HQ on our blog http://blog.london2012.com or follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/london2012team Notes to editors: As it heads towards its £2bn budget for staging the Olympic and Paralympic Games, LOCOG has seven domestic Tier One Partners - adidas, BMW, BP, British Airways, BT, EDF and Lloyds TSB. There are six domestic Tier Two Supporters – Adecco, Cadbury, Cisco, Deloitte, Thomas Cook and UPS. There are now thirteen domestic Tier Three Suppliers and Providers – Airwave, Atkins, Boston Consulting Group, Crystal CG, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, GSK, Holiday Inn, John Lewis, McCann Worldgroup, The Nielsen Company, Populous, Ticketmaster and Trident. The Worldwide Olympic Partners signed up for London 2012 are Coca-Cola, Acer, Atos Origin, GE, McDonald’s, Omega, Panasonic, Samsung and Visa. Middlesbrough; Centre Square, Middlesbrough Derby; Market Place, Derby About the Olympic Lottery Distributor: The Olympic Lottery Distributor is investing National Lottery money to fund the London 2012 Games. As well as providing funding of £2.62 million to fund Big Screens, it has provided £15.6 million to six of the ten major projects of the Cultural Olympiad and will also be providing up to £1.8 billion for the infrastructure of the Olympic Park and other Olympic facilities across the UK. About BT: BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include the provision of networked IT services globally; local, national and international telecommunications services to our customers for use at home, at work and on the move; broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale. BT is proud to be the official communications services partner for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. In the year ended 31 March 2009, BT Group’s revenue was £21,390 million. British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York. For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt About Lloyds TSB: Lloyds TSB is a leading UK based financial services group providing a wide range of banking and financial services, primarily in the UK, to personal and corporate customers. Our main business activities are retail, commercial and corporate banking, general insurance, and life, pensions and investment provision. The Group has a large and diversified customer base and services are offered through a number of well recognised brands (Lloyds TSB, Cheltenham & Gloucester, Scottish Widows), and via a unique distribution capability comprising one of the largest branch networks in the UK and intermediary channels. For more information about LloydsTSB, visit www.lloydstsb.com About Cisco: Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Information about Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com. Cisco equipment in Europe is supplied by Cisco Systems International BV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc. |
