The 2012 Summer Olympic Games took place in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012.

Broadcasting

YouTube will live stream the games to countries all over the world as part of an IOC deal, which will also be viewable on YouTube's mobile and Xbox Live applications.

Sports

For the first time, women's boxing is included in the programme, with 36 athletes competing in three different weight classes.

There is a special dispensation to allow the various shooting events to go ahead, which would otherwise be illegal under UK gun law.

In Tennis, mixed doubles returns to the Olympic programme for the first time since 1924.  

London's bid featured 28 sports, in line with other recent Summer Olympics, but the IOC voted to drop baseball and softball from the 2012 Games two days after it selected London as the host city. The IOC reinforced its decision to drop both sports during the 2006 Winter Olympics, after they lost votes for reconsideration, and were last scheduled for a Games at the 2008 Olympics.  Following the decision to drop the two sports, the IOC held a vote on whether or not to replace them.  The sports considered were karate, squash, golf, roller sports and rugby sevens.  Karate and squash were the two final nominees, but neither received enough votes to reach the required two-thirds majority.  Even though formal demonstration sports were eliminated following the 1992 Summer Olympics, special tournaments for non-Olympic sports can be run during the games, such as the Wushu tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics.  There were attempts to run Twnety20 cricket, and Netball tournaments parallel with the 2012 games, but neither campaign was successful.