On July 25, 2012, the first competition of the 30th Summer Olympic Games will take place. In just 19 days, more than six hundred competitions in 31 sports will be held in England, in which the Olympians will compete for 302 sets of awards. With such an abundance of starts, those who have the opportunity to personally attend this sports event or will follow its progress on TV broadcasts will find it very difficult to plan their time without a game schedule.
The first version of the schedule was published by the organizers of the London Olympics a long time ago - in mid-February 2011. Since then, minor changes have been made to it, and the most recent version can be seen on the official website of the Olympiad - a direct link to the page with the interactive calendar is given below. This calendar allows you to get both general information about which days the competitions will take place in the sports of interest to you, as well as get more detailed information. It includes the start and end times of the competition at each stage (qualifying starts, semi-finals, etc.) and their location.
The official website provides viewing only in two languages - English and French. If their knowledge is insufficient, you can use online translators, but automatic translation does not give a very high-quality result so far. Alternatively, you can use the versions of the schedule translated into Russian, posted on the sites in the "zone ru". One of these calendars is, for example, on championat.com - a direct link to it is also given below. In this version, the starts of the Olympiad are presented in one list with the date and time of the competition.
A more convenient version of the Olympic calendar in Russian can be found, for example, on the website russianlondon.com. By clicking on the direct link under this article, you will be taken to the section where the summary calendar of events of the London Olympics is posted. There you can also follow the links to pages with more detailed information about the schedule of starts in individual sports. There is also a schedule of competitions in this section, broken down by individual sports facilities. This can be especially useful to plan for as many starts as possible without wasting time traveling between Olympic venues.
