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"London 2012 is just a few days in but the event is already a record breaker for the corporation, after the BBC Sport website saw huge web traffic at the weekend and there were 1.7m iPlayer requests for the Opening Ceremony. Released today, BBC Online&amp;#039;s first stats for its Olympic coverage revealed that BBC.co.uk/sport attracted 7.8m global browsers on Saturday (July 28), a worldwide record for the day, and 5.6m UK browsers.  The following day, the BBC Sport site attracted 8.3m global browsers and 6.1m UK browsers - both a UK and global record.  The BBC announced on Friday that its BBC Olympics mobile app had generated 500,000 downloads on iPhone and Android, but that more than doubled over the weekend to 1.15m. On Saturday, 55% of browsers to the BBC Sport site came from non-desktop devices, such as smartphones and tablets, said the BBC.   Danny Boyle&amp;#039;s acclaimed celebration of British history in the London 2012 Opening Ceremony attracted a television audience of almost 27 million viewers on Friday, beating the amount that tuned in for last year&amp;#039;s royal wedding.  However, the spectacle also racked up 1.7m requests on BBC iPlayer, including 925,000 alone on Saturday - a record for a single day on the BBC&amp;#039;s catch up TV platform.  The scene in which James Bond, played by actor Daniel Craig, escorts the Queen to the London 2012 Olympic Games via helicopter has been viewed 640,000 times on the BBC&amp;#039;s YouTube channel.   Cait O&amp;#039;Riordan, the head of product for BBC Sport, said that the BBC also succeeded in delivering 24 simultaneous live streams of London 2012 coverage over the weekend to &amp;quot;the biggest audience the Sport website has ever seen&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s been a fantastic weekend for me and my team watching the Games unfold,&amp;quot; she said in a blog post today.  &amp;quot;Just after 3pm on Saturday afternoon we had all our encoders in action playing 24 live video streams of sporting action across desktop, mobile tablet, connected TVs and Red Button. &amp;quot;And Sunday was the busiest day ever on the BBC Sport site - with 6.1 million unique browsers in the UK and 8.3 million worldwide.&amp;quot;  O&amp;#039;Riordan added: &amp;quot;We have been testing the infrastructure and the sites we have built for the games for months using test data and streams and artificial traffic and we were really confident it would work. &amp;quot;But even so it&amp;#039;s nerve wracking turning it all on and showing it to vast numbers of real users - so we are thrilled that it&amp;#039;s all working so well.&amp;quot; Photo gallery - Olympics 2012 in pictures:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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