This week's Radio Times is an Olympics special
Your complete 16-day TV guide to the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Olympic Games begin on Friday 26 July as the River Seine offers up a waterborne overture for the greatest show on Earth. It’s as ambitious as it is fanciful – and an entirely appropriate way to herald the 16 days of the XXXIII Olympiad.
Is there anything else quite like the Olympics? As the ultimate test for so many sports, it’s a true measure of greatness. But it’s the mix of events, enhanced these days by an ever-expanding list of novel additions – from surfing to break dancing – that makes this the most inclusive of sporting jamborees.
Over 16 days, you will be able to watch every event, from athletics to weightlifting, without having to move a muscle, other than to switch channel on the remote control.
Many, no doubt, will choose to follow the Games on the BBC, which will broadcast over 250 hours of live coverage. But for those who want to watch every event live, then Eurosport and Discovery+ offer the chance to see all 10,500 athletes and an opportunity to catch all 329 medal moments. If you keep your wits about you.
Our 68-page guide in next week's Radio Times includes day-by day listings of the BBC’s coverage and an A-Z daily guide to each sport. Plus, we have the pick of the action chosen by our pundits. With 12 gold, six silver and ten bronze medals between them, there can be no voices better qualified to steer you to the best of the action. Let the Games begin!
The Olympics Special issue of Radio Times magazine is out now – subscribe here.
Also in this week's Radio Times:
We still have our regular listings for the week leading up to Friday’s Opening Ceremony, plus our eight-page streaming section is a sport-free zone.
A preview of the TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s 1980s romp, Rivals.
We talk to Game of Thrones star Iwan Rheon about his role in Roland Emmerich’s Roman-era gladiator drama Those About to Die.
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