Bbc co uk 2012 games

A special police unit, Operation Podium, is already targeting touts and a number of websites selling illegal Games tickets have been closed, Mr Deighton said. Organisers will also try to prevent sports officials or executives from reselling their allocated tickets at a "dramatically increased rate".

Let's get the tickets in to the hands of those who are definitely going to show," Mr Deighton said. Olympic tickets: Your comments. Games Park named after the Queen. Extra Olympic tickets announced. Call for Olympics tickets clarity. British Olympic Association Home. Bobby Kotick, chief executive of Activision Blizzard, the world's largest video games publisher employing over people in the UK, added described it as "a great first step".

The UK is an important centre for development talent, employing 9, people in the video games sector, and anything that promotes further investment should be welcomed," he added. But Julian David, newly appointed director general of Intellect, the trade body for the UK's technology industry, felt the government could have gone further. Mr David recommended that the government look at ways to make sure businesses were using the most up-to-date technology, and take further action to aid exports.

Danger Mouse: Disasteroids. Quick Play: Snack Run Game. Heirs of the Night. Quick Play: Monster Pedicure. Quick Play: Slime Academy. Quick Play: The Man on the Moon game. Secret Life Of Boys 3: Episodes 6 - Secret Life Of Boys.

Secret Life Of Boys 3: Episodes Customise your own Formula E car! BBC Sport. Radio 1. Bring them back! Home Menu. Start your search here Games - The best free games online for kids. The Deep Game: Explore with Fontaine to find the pearl! Play Now.

CBBC Games. The British have won 24 gold medals in the history of sailing at the Games, five more than the second-placed United States, and GB nosed ahead of Australia by four gold medals to two at the Beijing Games four years ago. Australia has been Britain's closest rival of late, and the Aussies took three gold medals to Britain's one at the ISAF World Championships off the coast of their home city of Perth.

The United States has a proud shooting history and tops the overall Olympic medal table, but not since Los Angeles has the US actually finished top in shooting at an individual Games. Given the LA Games were also subject to a boycott, you have to go back to Munich to find an Olympic shooting medal table led by the Americans.

China , again, is increasingly the major player. Although they were vying for top spot as far back as LA China and the US both won three gold medals, but China won fewer silver , since the year the medal table has been dominated by the Chinese, winning 12 gold medals at the last three Games. Michael Phelps has, on his own, won more Olympic swimming titles than all but seven nations - and that's adding up every single Olympics.

It should hence be little surprise that the United States is far and away the most successful swimming nation, with almost medals accrued.

But in terms of importance to a nation's Olympic heritage, swimming means much more to Australia. Australians have won 56 gold medals in the pool - athletics, far behind with 19, is the nation's second-strongest sport. Australia has finished a proud second to the US in each of the last three Olympic swimming medal tables.

There is no doubt about the ruling nation in synchronised swimming. Since Sydney , Russia has won both the team and duet titles the only two gold medals available in the sport, which is only open to women at every Olympics.

The production line continues, too: none of the nine-woman team which won gold for Russia at Beijing had been in the title-winning team eight years earlier. At last year's World Championships, which offered a larger programme of events than the Games, seven gold medals were up for grabs. Russia won the lot by comfortable margins over China and Spain. Is it worth any nation other than China entering the Olympic table tennis tournament? In the last 20 years, Chinese table tennis players have won 18 of the 20 Olympic titles on offer.

Only South Korea in and Sweden in have managed to stand in the way of the Chinese. At their home Games in Beijing, China managed a one-two-three in both men's and women's singles. No nation other than those mentioned has ever won a table tennis gold medal. China's total of 41 medals is more than every other nation combined. At the Olympics, this sport is theirs.

In the decade for which taekwondo has been an Olympic sport, South Korea has stamped its authority on the medals. Half of the eight gold medals on offer at Beijing went to Koreans, split equally between their male and female athletes. Mexico were an impressive second place with two golds. Korea maintained their run during the World Championships, which the country hosted, but Iran - winners of two Olympic gold medals to date - made noteworthy progress, taking three world titles in the men's events to finish in second place.

It may come as a surprise to learn that Britain are second in the all-time Olympic tennis medal table, with 15 gold medals. The problem? All 15 came during the sport's first stint in the Olympic programme, from to Tennis was subsequently dropped from the Games and did not make a reappearance until , after which point Britain's sole medal dates to Atlanta , won by Neil Broad and Tim Henman in men's doubles.

Olympic tennis is now quite an open field, not least because the doubles events create new national partnerships not found elsewhere on the pro tennis scene, which can throw up shock results. The United States , however, has been the most prevalent name on the podium in recent years - in particular the Williams sisters, Olympic champions in women's doubles at both Sydney where Venus won the singles and Beijing Triathlon made its Olympic debut at Sydney and, since then, a different nation has won every gold medal on offer: one each for Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and Switzerland.

That may change in , as Britain enters its home Olympics with not one but two world champions: Alistair Brownlee in men's triathlon with younger brother Jonny ranked second in the world and Helen Jenkins in the women's race. It is feasible, though by no means certain, that Team GB could win both Olympic titles this summer and consequently leap to the top of the overall triathlon medal table.

Equally, a strong Australian women's team might extend the lead their nation currently holds by virtue of its two silver medals. Brazil and the United States traded blows at Beijing for indoor volleyball supremacy.

The two met in both finals, the US emerging with men's gold and Brazil winning the women's Olympic title. Previously, the Soviet Union had been a volleyball superpower and, in the vacuum after its demise, Cuba took over in the women's sport, winning three successive Olympic golds.

Brazilians have featured in six of the eight Olympic beach volleyball finals ever contested, but they emerged from Beijing with no gold medals as the US swept the board. Adding together the medal tables for beach and indoor volleyball, the US is on top with eight golds, ahead of Brazil's five. Hungary , famously, are the custodians of Olympic water polo, ever since the country's notorious skirmish with Soviet opponents in their semi-final at the Olympics in Melbourne Hungary, incidentally, having beaten Great Britain in the group stage en route.