Showing posts with label Tyson Fury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tyson Fury. Show all posts

Tuesday, 2 February 2016

BBC Olympics Coverage New Discovery


The BBC will broadcast the next five Olympics - Summer and Winter - on its television, radio and online platforms.

It had already secured the rights for the 2016, 2018 and 2020 Games.

Now an "innovative" partnership with Discovery Communications ensures the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing and the Summer Games two years later will also be broadcast by the corporation.

The announcement ensures the BBC will continue to be the free-to-air home of the Olympics until 2024.

"The Olympic Games is one of the nation's most treasured sporting events," said Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport.

"This is an extensive package of rights that ensures we can offer the best of the Games, across TV, radio, online and digital, maximising the reach and impact of the BBC.

"This ground-breaking partnership also shows how the BBC can collaborate and work with others to continue to bring the very best in sport to licence fee payers."

The next four Olympics take place in Rio de Janeiro (2016), Pyeongchang (2018), Tokyo (2020) and Beijing (2022).

The venue for the 2024 Games is yet to be decided.

The 2012 Games in London were watched on the BBC by more than 50 million people in the United Kingdom.

Seven million people accessed the BBC website every day, with 111 million requests for video and more than two million people downloading the app.

UK Sport recently predicted Britain could win as many as 79 medals in Rio, where the Games begin on 5 August

Mo Farah will be attempting to win another Olympic double after taking 10,000m and 5,000m gold in London, while Jessica Ennis-Hill will defend her heptathlon crown.

"The BBC prides itself on bringing the biggest sporting moments to the public," said Tony Hall, director general of the BBC.

"I'm delighted that through our new partnership with Discovery, the BBC will continue to carry the torch for great sporting coverage right through to the 2024 Games.

"While the BBC has had to take some tough financial decisions, this partnership underlines our commitment to making world class sport available to all."

As part of the agreement, Discovery will sub-license from the BBC exclusive pay-TV rights to the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games.

David Zaslav, president and chief executive officer of Discovery Communications, said the deal was "a win for UK sports fans".

He added: "For 30 years, our two organisations have charted new frontiers with co-production partnerships in factual and natural history programming.

"Now we join together once again to bring the most compelling stories of human ambition, sacrifice and achievement to people across the UK."


Thursday, 14 January 2016

Rocket Reaches Masters Semifinal


Ronnie O'Sullivan reached the semi-finals of the Masters with an impressive 6-3 victory over three-time winner and world number one Mark Selby.

The five-time Masters champion knocked in one century and six-half centuries, including a match-winning 73 in frame nine, after Selby had a break of 70.

"You're not going to win this tournament by playing negative," O'Sullivan, 40, told BBC Sport.

He will face either John Higgins or Stuart Bingham in the last four.

BBC snooker analyst Steve Davis called O'Sullivan's clearance to win the match "one of the greatest of all time".

However, five-time world champion O'Sullivan, who is playing his first major tournament since taking a break from the sport last April, insisted he is not on top of his game.

He said: "It was a chance but I'm trying to kid myself I'm confident.

"I felt a bit more relaxed and comfortable. My attitude was fantastic. But I'm struggling with my technique and it's just the occasion and the competitive instinct within me that's making me try and find something.

"I'm not cruising where you flick through the gears."


Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Rutherford in BBC SPOTY Fury


Sports Personality of the Year nominee Greg Rutherford has threatened to pull out of the BBC's end-of-year award's show if Tyson Fury remains on the shortlist.

And BBC executives fear others could follow Rutherford's lead if he follows through with his threat.

Olympic champion Rutherford, one of 12 sportsmen and women on the shortlist, has told the BBC he does not want to be part of the vote if Fury remains a contender.

A public petition has been set up calling for him to be removed from the shortlist and as attracted more than 100,000 signatures.

Fury, who was added to the list after being crowned World Heavyweight champion, has refused to apologise for claiming that once homosexuality, paedophilia and abortion are all made legal, the world will end.

Fury has also claimed: "a woman's best place is in the kitchen and on her back".

The Englishman has called those who have signed the petition "w******" and has posted a message on twitter to say he doesn't want to win SPOTY anyway.

Rutherford, who is an outside contender for the main award, rose to fame during the 2012 London Olympics, and has been nominated this year after winning triple-jump gold at the World Championships in Beijing earlier this year.

Despite Rutherford's threat, the BBC insist they will not change the nominations despite the outcry over Fury's inclusion.

A spokesperson said: “The Sports Personality shortlist is compiled by a panel of industry experts and is based on an individual’s sporting achievement – it is not an endorsement of an individual’s personal beliefs either by the BBC or members of the panel.”

Earlier this week, BBC News presenter Clive Myrie, during a live newspaper review branded Fury a “d******” after checking that it was “after the watershed”.

Meanwhile, the Sports Journalists’ Association, organisers of the British Sports Awards in London next week, has withdrawn its invitation to Fury to attend the event.

The decision was made as a consequence of threats made by Fury against at least one sports journalist, an SJA member, who has written about the boxer’s repugnant comments on homosexuality and women.

A spokesman for the SJA said: “We are aware of threats made by Tyson Fury against one of our members, and therefore feel that it would be incompatible with the nature of our event, or the interests of our members, our other guests and our sponsors, for us to continue to extend a welcome to Tyson Fury to our awards next week.”