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Let the Games begin ...

Sam Donnellon and Marcus Hayes will provide the news, perspective and insight you have come to expect from the Daily News sports section throughout the Games, with special attention on their experiences in Beijing.

The Olympics start Wednesday with women's soccer, featuring the United States, with Delran's Carli Lloyd, facing Norway. The game will be aired on MSNBC at 7:30 a.m. Eastern.

While Marcus and Sam will experience the Olympics live, most Americans will experience them in new ways, via television and the Internet.

The numbers are just staggering

3,600: Hours of competition available, live and on-demand on your television, your cell phone or online

2,900: Hours of live competition available

176 1/2: Hours shown for the entire 1996 Games in Atlanta

212: Hours of Olympic competition available PER DAY

9: Networks involved in coverage, counting the new Olympic Basketball Network and Olympic Soccer Network

2,200: Hours available as streaming video on NBCOlympics.com

900: Million dollars that NBC reportedly paid for the rights

Want to know what's on when and on which channel? Check out the full television schedule.
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About Sam Donnellon and Marcus Hayes

SAM DONNELLON's career began in Biddeford, Me., in 1981, and has included stops in Wilkes-Barre, Norfolk, and New York, where he worked as a national writer for the short-lived but highly acclaimed National Sports Daily. He has received state and national awards at each stop and since joining the Daily News in 1992 has been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors, the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Associated Press Managing Editors of Pennsylvania and the Keystone Awards. He and his wife have raised three fine children, none of whom are even the least bit impressed with the above. Sam is veteran of Olympics coverage for the Daily News, including the Games in Sydney and Turin, among others.

MARCUS HAYES grew up on a small farm outside of Hermon, NY., a small town near the Canadian border about the size of Reading Terminal Market. In high school he played three varsity sports and aspired to be faster, or more skilled, or taller. Having failed in those aspirations and seeking a warmer climate, Marcus attended Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and eventually graduated with a degree in Magazine Writing. He also earned a degree in English from the College of Arts and Sciences. To date he has written for no magazines. His English is spotty at best. Upon graduation in 1990, with Jim Boeheim's talent-leaden SU basketball teams having won no titles, Marcus spent 4½ years working for the now-absorbed Syracuse Herald-Journal covering high school sports, local small college sports and non-revenue sports at SU. Marcus joined the Daily News as a feature story writer in 1995. Among other assignments he has covered the Eagles and Phillies beats for most of his tenure. Still, the paper soldiers on.

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