Olympic Dreams is the title of a British television

British television

Public television broadcasting started in the United Kingdom in 1936, and now has a collection of free and subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are over 480 channelsTaking the base Sky EPG TV Channels. A breakdown is impossible due to a) the number of...

 series, a co-production between the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 and the Open University

Open University

The Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...

, with the intent of tracking a group of young British athletes bidding for Olympic

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

 success at the 2012 Summer Olympics

2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the "London 2012 Olympic Games", are scheduled to take place in London, England, United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012...

 in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

.

The first series of programmes were broadcast at the end of 2007. The second series started in July 2008.

The athletes being tracked are:

• Jessica Ennis
  Jessica Ennis
  Jessica Ennis, MBE is a British track and field athlete specialising in multi-eventing disciplines and 100m hurdles...
  
   - heptathlete
• Darius Knight, Paul Drinkhall
  Paul Drinkhall
  Paul Drinkhall is a British table tennis player, currently the highest-ranked British player in the World. He is the current English Champion, winning the competition in March 2011. He is coached by Liu Jia-Yi, and is in Great Britain's Team Visa, an initiative to support young sports people to...
  
   - table tennis
  Table tennis
  Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
  
   players
• Shanaze Reade
  Shanaze Reade
  Shanaze Danielle Reade is a professional British Bicycle Motocross racer and track cyclist whose prime competitive years began in 2002. She has won the UCI BMX World Championships three times...
  
   - BMX
  BMX
  Bicycle motocross or BMX refers to the sport in which the main goal is extreme racing on bicycles in motocross style on tracks with inline start and expressive obstacles, and it is also the term that refers to the bicycle itself that is designed for dirt and motocross cycling.- History :BMX started...
  
   cyclist
• Lee Pearson
  Lee Pearson
  David Lee Pearson, CBE is a nine-times paralympic games gold medallist having represented British para-equestrianism in Sydney, Athens and Beijing. He also has six world-championship and three European titles...
  
   - paralympic dressage
  Dressage
  Dressage is a competitive equestrian sport, defined by the International Equestrian Federation as "the highest expression of horse training." Competitions are held at all levels from amateur to the World Equestrian Games...
  
   rider
• Andy Triggs-Hodge
  Andrew Triggs-Hodge
  Andrew Triggs Hodge MBE is a British rower and an Olympic and double World Champion.- Education :...
  
  , Alex Partridge
  Alex Partridge
  Alex Partridge is a British rower, and an Olympic silver medallist- Education :Partridge started rowing at Monkton Combe School, Bath, and attended Oxford Brookes University to study Technology Management...
  
  , Peter Reed
  Peter Reed (rower)
  Peter Reed MBE is a British Olympic rower. Reed has achieved two gold medals and two silver medals in the World Championships, and in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he earned a gold medal in the Men's coxless four.- Biography :Reed was born in Seattle, but his family moved to England several months...
  
  , Steve Williams
  Steve Williams (rower)
  Stephen David Williams OBE is an English rower and double Olympic champion.In April and May 2011, Steve will be taking part in Richard Parks'...
  
   - Men's coxless four
  Rowing (sport)
  Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
  
  
• Tom Daley
  Tom Daley (diver)
  Thomas Robert "Tom" Daley is an English diver who specialises in the 10 metre platform event and was the 2009 FINA World Champion in the individual event at the age of 15. He started diving at the age of seven and is a member of Plymouth Diving Club. He has made an impact in national and...
  
   - diver
  Diving
  Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...
  
  
• Ben Swift
  Ben Swift
  Benjamin Swift is an English professional track and road racing cyclist who currently rides for Team Sky.-Biography:...
  
   - cyclist
• Jessica Hogg, Lizzie Beddoe, Venus Romaeo - gymnasts