Overnight and early morning, BBC HD broadcast highlights of the day's events in 3D. Instead of using the channel's regular idents, or indeed any of the 'Stadium UK' animation, slow motion videos of athletes performing selected Olympic sports, accompanied by the 'First Steps' theme, were used to lead in to the programmes.

For this event, the BBC broadcast the 3D picture in 'side-by-side' mode. Here, the videos have been edited to show a single view.

Captions

Before and after 3D broadcasts, BBC HD shows an information caption.