The Olympic Games opens in Canberra tonight, and from tomorrow, The Canberra Times will begin its most comprehensive and exciting Olympics coverage we have ever done.
Canberra Times sports writers Robert Messenger, Jamie Nicholson, Karl de Kroo, David Kirkpatrick and Gary Scholes, colour writer Jenna Price and photographers Graham Tidy, Gary Schafer and Kym Smith will join an array of skilled sports writers from an alliance of newspapers that That Canberra Times has joined to bring the best possible Olympics coverage to Canberra. We will produce a 24-page tabloid Olympic supplement every day of the Olympics, joined forces with Fairfax papers The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and its regionals and the Rural Press regionals and the West Australian. We will also have our usual access to Australian Associated Press..
It means Canberra readers will get access to quality specialist sports writing and photography in all Olympic sports. Other parts of the paper will have additional Olympic coverage. Canberra Times sports editor Doug Gorrel and chief sports sub-editor John Lilley will be at the Olympics in Sydney to in ensure that Canberra and region elements are covered.
Digital photography and text transfer will mean full coverage of late night events will be on your lawn before 6am.