Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympics highlights on BBC TV

Sporting stars of tomorrow assemble in the Chinese city of Nanjing for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games and you can follow the highlights with BBC Sport and online via Olympic.TV.

Following the inaugural summer Games of Singapore 2010 and the first winter sports edition in Innsbruck, Austria, back in 2012, Nanjing takes over the baton in 2014 as the Youth Olympic movement continues to grow in stature for emerging sporting talents across the world.

The best young athletes from all four corners the globe, aged between 14 and 18, from over 200 nations will compete in 28 sports over an incredible 12 days of Olympic competition.

The slogan of the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympics is “Share the Games, Share our Dreams” and the Games is aiming to boost self-understanding, active participation and creativity in young people both in the sports arena and in everyday life.

Great Britain will be sending a squad of 33 athletes, aged 15-18, who have been mentored by Olympic medal-winning gymnast Beth Tweddle, and the Games will provide Team GB youngsters with a huge opportunity in preparing to possibly compete for their country at the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Games.

There will be no British representation in the high-profile Olympic sports of athletics, cycling and tennis, but swimming is the best represented discipline for Team GB with eight swimmers set to compete.

Household names such as Tom Daley, Sam Oldham and Jade Jones all competed at the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympics before going on to win medals at London 2012 Olympic Games.

Great Britain won nine medals in total back in 2010, with Taekwondo fighter Jones and gymnast Oldham going on to secure gold and bronze respectively at London 2012, while Daley won a memorable bronze medal in the 10m platform diving.

Potential Team GB medallists this time around include 18-year-old boxer Muhammad Ali, who aspires to follow in the footsteps of his much cherished namesake, gymnast Ellie Downie, who hopes to emulate elder sister Becky – who herself was an Olympian and Commonwealth champion – Abigail Stones, who is the reigning world junior taekwondo champion.

Unlike its senior counterpart, there are no medal targets set by UK Sport for the Games, giving this new generation of youth athletes the chance to compete without the stress and the pressure on the world stage as their road to Rio de Janeiro begins.

As the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games gets set to commence 12 days of top class junior level sport, here is how you can keep up-to-date with all the latest developments from China.

BBC Sport will be broadcasting daily highlights on BBC Red Button and special review programmes looking back at the key moments on BBC One and on CBBC’s Blue Peter after the event.

One-hour highlights will be broadcast every day during the event on BBC Red Button, the first of which will be shown at 4.00pm on the opening day, with 

Text reports and select video highlights of British success will be uploaded onto the BBC Sport website and shown during sports news bulletins on the BBC News Channel, with correspondents in China, including Nick Hope, providing the latest news and interviews.

Keep an eye out for two special review shows on BBC TV, the first of which is a one-hour highlights programme rounding up all 12 days of action on BBC One at 3.00pm on Saturday, August 30, presented by Ore Oduba and Lindsay Russell, which will be available on BBC iPlayer shortly afterwards.

There will also be another review airing on the BBC’s flagship children’s programme Blue Peter on the CBBC channel, based around Nanjing 2014 and inside the Team GB camp at the Games.

Olympic.TV will be the place to watch live coverage of all the main action from Nanjing across all 12 days, featuring all 28 sports.

The International Olympic Committee’s in-house TV service will be running live online coverage of the Youth Olympic Games across several platforms.

These include websites Olympic.org and Olympic.tv, as well as their YouTube channel and the Olympic TV App, which is available to download on IOS and Android.

Alongside the live feeds, the official Olympic channels will house 480 hours of on-demand coverage of the Games for fans to view at any time.

Team GB will be running regular updates and coverage across its social and digital channels throughout the Games, reporting on all the action from the 33 British athletes competing in Nanjing.

Follow @TeamGB on Twitter for live updates on medals and major results from Team GB in Nanjing as well as following Team Gb athletes’ journeys, while daily photo galleries of British athletes in action across all sports and the main headlines of Nanjing 2014 can be found on the Team GB Facebook page.

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