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- Roger Mosey
- 30 Dec 08, 01:52 PM
All the end-of-year reviews are agreed: 2008 is a year that's going to be hard to beat for sporting magic.
But we're going to do our best to cheer up the nation in 2009 - however gloomy the news agenda. And almost all the stars from our Sports Personality Top 10 will be in top-quality live action on the BBC.
The people's choice - Chris Hoy - will be with his fellow British cyclists in Poland in March for the World Track Championships. Rebecca Adlington will feature in the World Swimming Championships in Rome in the summer, and we'll be giving extensive coverage to the World Athletics Championships with Christine Ohuruogu from Berlin.
Continue reading "Plenty to look forward to in 2009"
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- Roger Mosey
- 15 Dec 08, 02:33 PM
It's a bit longer journey back to London this year and I'm writing this on a train passing through the Midlands on a frosty, misty morning that says Christmas is just around the corner. If proof were needed, a Virgin Trains chaplain has just appeared along with an entire choir singing carols - except in coaches A and B where there's overcrowding...
But top of the agenda: thank you, Liverpool. The city did us proud last night in hosting Sports Personality of the Year. It was a wonderful arena with great facilities, and every impression I got was that the audience there - and the sports stars - had a ball. Liverpool's papers liked it too.
Continue reading "The frosty morning after the sensational night before"
- Jonathan Bramley
- 12 Dec 08, 10:04 AM
With Beijing a distant memory now, planning for the next Winter Olympics has stepped up a gear and we've been in Vancouver and Whistler this week on a site visit for the 2010 Games.
They take place from 12 to 28 February and, with less than 14 months to go, it's been a busy few days visiting venues, scouting for live locations, securing accommodation and meeting a lot of the people we'll be working with when the Games come around.
With the different sports split between Vancouver, which is the largest city ever to host the Winter Olympics, and the ski resort of Whistler, we want to make sure that our live presentation represents both locations.
Continue reading "Planning for Vancouver steps up a gear"
- Roger Mosey
- 11 Dec 08, 10:19 AM
Some of our BBC Sport offices around Television Centre are beginning to empty as our production team moves to Liverpool for this year's Sports Personality Of The Year.
The set is being installed; rehearsals in the Echo Arena will soon be under way; and then the giants of the sporting world will be converging on Merseyside ready for Sunday night's programme.
As ever, there's plenty of press comment - mainly around the incredibly competitive shortlist for this year's main awards, though there's the usual mixture of wit, wisdom and acid comments about the show itself.
I have no problem with commentators commenting - and people like Marina Hyde always make me laugh in the most positive sense - but it's worth explaining why Sports Personality has changed over the years.
Continue reading "Capturing the spirit of 2008"
- Roger Mosey
- 3 Dec 08, 05:00 PM
From a lecture to Lincoln University, 3 December 2008:
I want to be optimistic. That may seem like an odd thing to say in the middle of the worst economic climate in decades, and with daily reminders about the complexity - and at times the savageness - of modern life. But I want to make a case for hope around the biggest event in the UK in generations: the London 2012 Olympics. And I also want to outline the case for sport as a vital part of the existence of every citizen, and for the BBC's role in supporting that.
Now, I think it's important to say at the outset that I'm not departing from the tradition of BBC impartiality. The BBC will report freely and fairly on the London Games and we'll represent every strand of British opinion. It wasn't easy for the London bid at the time, but we did broadcast an investigation into alleged corruption within the International Olympic Committee while London was in fierce competition to win the Olympiad. We'll continue to report on the triumphs, the challenges and the setbacks.
Continue reading "London 2012: The biggest event, the biggest challenge"
- Carl Doran
- 1 Dec 08, 04:37 PM
We announced the top 10 contenders for this year's prestigious Sports Personality of the Year on BBC One's The One Show on Monday 1 December.
After a quite sensational year, it is no surprise that the list is one of the strongest we've ever had.
Continue reading "Sports Personality shortlist announced"
- Amanda Farnsworth
- 19 Nov 08, 12:14 PM
As I write it's 1346 days to go before the London Olympics.
Does that sound like a lot or a little to you?
On Monday's Inside Sport, we're interviewing Jacques Rogge, the President of the International Olympic Committee. It's the only interview he's giving while he visits London. He'll be in town to attend a meeting where those who ran the Beijing Olympics pass on their hard earned knowledge to the organisers of London 2012, who've already stepped up a gear since the 2008 Games ended.
Continue reading "Hot foots and flying visits"
- Roger Mosey
- 11 Nov 08, 10:27 AM
A couple of years ago the build-up to Sports Personality Of The Year was underway accompanied by rather glum mood music. A lot of people were writing that nobody deserved to win the main award, and it had been a year of British sporting failure. Darren Clarke was installed as the pre-event favourite, but in the end Zara Phillips galloped home - to the pleasure of many and the irritation of others.
In 2007 there was another upset. Lewis Hamilton was thought to be in the lead entering the final straight, but the public chose Joe Calzaghe instead - which generally speaking pleased the people who hadn't been Zara fans.
Continue reading "Your choice has never been so difficult"
- Amanda Farnsworth
- 29 Oct 08, 01:24 PM
We're four editions into this run of Inside Sport and I wondered what you thought of some of the changes we have introduced for this set of programmes?
The first big change was to widen the make-up of the panel in the studio by bringing in different BBC commentators and experts like Brian Moore and David Croft.
We've also done a couple of programmes with a single theme - our second show was an Olympic special and the third show in the run was all football.
Continue reading "We'd like your feedback "
- Roger Mosey
- 23 Oct 08, 11:26 AM
We're back with live NFL on Sunday - following the well-received BBC coverage of the Super Bowl earlier this year. It's the second regular season game to be held at Wembley, and the healthy audience we got for the highlights in 2007 has prompted us to take the whole match live this time round. And cheerleaders and fireworks, too, of course.
It marks a first in our use of different BBC channels. It'll start on BBC Two at 5pm - and then at 7pm it will move over to BBC Three for the final hour. I know switching channels isn't universally popular as some earlier blogs have shown, but this is a conscious experiment.
Continue reading "Four quarters, two channels"
- Alex Gubbay
- 23 Oct 08, 09:27 AM
A quick blog to apologise for the interruption to the service on the BBC Sport website last night.
Our editorial team were unable to publish any updates to the main pages of the website from about 18:50 until after 23:00 - this affected News and other parts of the BBC website as well.
It appears to have been caused by damage to the links between our London buildings, which meant we lost network connectivity between our publishing systems and the BBC web servers.
On a busy night of Champions League football, this meant we were unable to bring you our normal live text commentary and photos, other football scores and statistics updates, or reports and quotes as soon as the games finished.
Which was just as frustrating for us as it obviously was for all of you unable to get any updates or information.
We hope normal service has now been resumed, but our technical teams will continue to investigate and work on ensuring that is the case.
[Update 1133 BST, 23/10/08: BBC News' blog on the interruption]
- Howard Nurse
- 24 Sep 08, 12:20 PM
So we kind of got the feeling that many of you found columns by footballers a bit dull.
When I use the word column, in many cases they were "ghosted" columns - that is to say one of our journalists conducts an interview and then writes up what was said into an article.
We always made it clear this was the case, with the "ghost" journalist receiving a credit at the foot of the piece. And all of the footballer's words were original, just perhaps arranged in a slightly different way so they made more sense.
That didn't always meet with your approval, so it was why we launched our first blog written by a real-life footballer!
Continue reading "A new approach to football columns"
