2012 Olympic Basketball

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2012 Olympic Basketball Schedule

2012 Summer Olympics

What: XXX Olympiad, or the

London 2012 Olympic Games

Where: London, England

When: 27 July – 12 August, 2012

Previous Olympics held in London: 1908, 1948

First Olympics that the United Kingdom will field a basketball team.

Olympic Basketball Schedule 2012

Requirements for Teams to Qualify for the Olympics Basketball Tournament

Host Nation now automatically qualifies

Win or place high enough in a FIBA Qualifying tournament

FIBA Holds championships on all major continents (Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania, Americas, World Championship, World Olympic Qualifying Tournament)

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2012 Olympic Qualifying Teams

9 of 12 Men’s and Women’s teams selected prior to 2012 FIBA World Olympic qualifying tournaments

Men’s Qualifiers: UK, US, Tunisia, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, Spain, France, China

Women’s Qualifiers: UK, US, Russia, China, Australia, Brazil, Angola

Final Olympic Qualifying Tournaments:

Men’s: 2-8 July 2012 in Venezuela

Women’s: 25 June-1 July 2012 in Turkey

2012 Olympic Basketball

2012 Olympics Basketball Schedule

Group Play: Teams play all other in the group in round robin format.

Single Elimination Play between top four teams in each Group.

Group/Single Elimination Play: 28 July – 10 August 2012

Finals/Third Place Games: 11-12 August 2012

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2012 Olympic Basketball TV Schedule

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) – Home broadcast network for the 2012 Olympics

NBC – Primary U.S. Olympic broadcast network.

Olympic committee is working with broadcast partners to stream live games and post highlights on YouTube

Official Video to be produced in 1080/50i HD format

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