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The Olympic Games have arrived, and broadcasters have swarmed Paris in a bid to relay all of the action to an eager British public over the airwaves.

As for the BBC, its live coverage will be presented by Adrian Chiles, Mark Chapman, Tony Livesey, Eleanor Oldroyd and Kelly Cates.

Olympians Victoria Pendleton, Louis Smith, Steve Parry, Karen Pickering and Jess Eddie are among the sporting stars providing insight and analysis.

RadioTimes.com brings you all the ways you can listen to Olympics 2024 action via radio and online.

Don’t miss a minute of the Games with our complete 16-day Olympics TV Guide download, including how to watch all the action on TV, online, on catch-up and on the radio.

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Olympics 2024 on radio

The BBC will broadcast live coverage of matches throughout the Olympics 2024 across its radio platforms.

Coverage will be live on either BBC Radio 5 Live or BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra.

BBC Radio 5 Live is available on DAB radio, MW 693 kHz, 909 kHz and 990 kHz, or you can tune into the station via most TV packages.

Listen to Olympics 2024 online

Online radio coverage – including BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra – will be available on the BBC Sounds app or via the BBC Sport website.

This is the easiest way to tune in to listen, with coverage available on a host of devices - from laptops and computers to portable devices such as smartphones and tablets.

Olympics 2024 radio schedule

With so much going on at the Olympic Games, schedules are likely to shift and reshape throughout the course of every day.

However, each BBC radio channel – 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra – will broadcast live coverage of the highlight events between 10am and 10pm all day, every day.

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Michael PottsSport Editor

Michael Potts is the Sport Editor for Radio Times, covering all of the biggest sporting events across the globe with previews, features, interviews and more. He has worked for Radio Times since 2019 and previously worked on the sport desk at Express.co.uk after starting his career writing features for What Culture. He achieved a first-class degree in Sports Journalism in 2014.

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