The 2012 Summer Olympics start officially Friday in London, UK, on 27th July, even if the games start on the 25th. The Opening Ceremony will take place Friday, 27th July, in the evening, while the Closing Ceremony will take place on 12th August, both on the Olympic Stadium.

There will be a total of 26 sports summing 39 disciplines:

Aquatics
Diving
Swimming
Synchronized swimming
Water polo
Archery
Athletics
Badminton
Basketball
Boxing
Canoeing
Sprint
Slalom
Cycling
BMX
Mountain biking
Road
Track
Equestrian
Dressage
Eventing
Jumping
Fencing

Field hockey
Football
Gymnastics
Artistic
Rhythmic
Trampoline
Handball
Judo
Modern pentathlon
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Table tennis
Taekwondo
Tennis
Triathlon
Volleyball
Volleyball
Beach volleyball
Weightlifting
Wrestling
Freestyle
Greco-Roman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

204 National Olympic Committees and over 10.000 athletes are expected to participate at this edition. The schedule for today and tomorrow looks like this:

Wednesday, July 25
TIME (ET)	SPORT	EVENT
11:00 AM	Soccer	Women’s Football, 1st Round, Group E, GBR vs NZL
12:00 PM	Soccer	Women’s Football, 1st Round, Group F, JPN vs CAN
12:00 PM	Soccer	Women’s Football, 1st Round, Group G, USA vs FRA
1:45 PM	Soccer	Women’s Football, 1st Round, Group E, CMR vs BRA
2:45 PM	Soccer	Women’s Football, 1st Round, Group F, SWE vs RSA
2:45 PM	Soccer	Women’s Football, 1st Round, Group G, COL vs PRK

Thursday, July 26
TIME (ET)	SPORT	EVENT
7:00 AM	Soccer	Men’s Football, 1st Round, Group D, ESP vs JPN
9:30 AM	Soccer	Men’s Football, 1st Round, Group B, MEX vs KOR
9:45 AM	Soccer	Men’s Football, 1st Round, Group D, HON vs MAR
12:00 PM	Soccer	Men’s Football, 1st Round, Group A, UAE vs URU
12:15 PM	Soccer	Men’s Football, 1st Round, Group B, GAB vs SUI
2:45 PM	Soccer	Men’s Football, 1st Round, Group C, BLR vs NZL
2:45 PM	Soccer	Men’s Football, 1st Round, Group C, BRA vs EGY
3:00 PM	Soccer	Men’s Football, 1st Round, Group A, GBR vs SEN

We will post every day the full schedule for the next day in our blog, as well the winners from the previous day, so come back to uVot Blog every day! Also, the picture on the top of every post will contain icons with the sports which will have competitions in the next day, so you can easily see what will happen at the first sight, since the schedule will get pretty busy in the next days.

Also, we prepared Special Charts dedicated to the 2012 Summer Olympics where you can vote your favorite sports and athletes! So how about you show your support to one of the greatest sport events in history, the Olympic Games?