Gorillaz creator’s Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett have created the BBC’s Olympics title sequence for their forthcoming coverage of this year’s Beijing games, and the clip is available to watch from today (July 24).

Starring ‘Monkey’ characters; Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy from the opera ‘Monkey: Journey To The West’, which they composed the music for, and which opened in London last night – the sequence is available to watch here.

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The two minute sequence will feature on TV, radio, web and mobile, introducing coverage of the Games on BBC Sport – from 7.30pm tonight (July 24).

More details are here: bbc.co.uk.