BBC One: Day 1: 09.00-11.30

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Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes

Coverage of swimming and rowing events as the Games get under way, with 302 gold medals at stake over the next sixteen days of competition.

British medal prospects Helen Glover and Heather Stanning take to the water first at the Eton Dorney Rowing Lake in the women's pair.

Also news of the start of the men's cycling road race - can Mark Cavendish become Olympic champion to add to his world title?

The first gold medal of the Games is won in the women's 10m air rifle, and there are stories affecting British competitors in action at the start of day one.

Rowing:
09.30 Women's pair heats
09.50 Women's quadruple sculls heats
10.10 Men's eight heats
10.30 Men's double sculls heats
11.00 Lightweight men's four heats

Rowing commentators:
Garry Herbert
Dan Topolski

Swimming:
10.00 Men's 400m individual medley heats
10.31 Women's 100m butterfly heats
10.58 Men's 400m freestyle heats

Swimming commentators:
Andy Jameson
Adrian Moorhouse
Sharron Davies.

Credits

Commentator
Garry Herbert
Commentator
Dan Topolski
Commentator
Andy Jameson
Commentator
Adrian Moorhouse
Commentator
Sharron Davies
Presenter
Mishal Husain
Presenter
John Inverdale
Presenter
Steve Redgrave
Presenter
Clare Balding
Director
Sally Richardson

Broadcasts

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