How to watch the 2024 Paris Olympics online: stream the Summer Olympic games
The 2024 Olympics creep ever nearer, with the Friday, July 26 Opening Ceremony now less than five months out, and this quadrennial celebration of sports will be sure to draw eyes from around the world. We'll help you figure out how to tune in, from around the world.
Quick links
US: Various cable channels | Peacock
UK: BBC | iPlayer (free to license fee payers)
AU: 9Now (free)| Stan Sports
Watch abroad with a VPN
It pays to work out how to watch the Summer Olympics early: by signing up for certain discounts or annual plans over monthly ones, you might be able to catch the games while saving money.
The 2024 Summer Olympics will be held in Paris, France, with the sports running all the way from the Opening Ceremony until Sunday, August 11. While Paris is the home of the games, competitions will take place over various French cities, and even as far away as Tahiti!
The Olympic Games in 2024 will see nearly 100 countries come together to compete in nearly 50 different sporting categories, from classics like athletics, swimming and cycling to taekwondo, sport climbing and surfing.
It's a regular event that draws the eyes of the world, whether it's from keen sporting fans or people who just like to see the limits of what humans can achieve, and it's a time for countries to come together in celebration of these sports.
While the 2024 Paris Olympics are quite a far way out, and lots of details on them are a little vague (including competing athletes and a schedule of play), there's no harm in working out how to watch them right now.
So here it is, we'll help you figure out how to watch the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, whether it's online or on your TV.
How to watch the 2024 Paris Olympic games in the US
In the US, you have several options for watching the Summer Olympics.
The most expansive coverage comes from Peacock, which will stream literally every sport taking place. It's arguably the best Olympic showing of any country so far.
Peacock is also set to host loads of features so Olympic fans can watch as much as possible: Live Actions will let you set prompts to jump to new activites that are starting or jump to an overview, Discovery Multiview will let you stream four sports at the same time and you can also create a viewing schedule, search by sport or athlete and keep up to date with all the medals and awards that have been issued.
Each month, Peacock costs $5.99 for its ad-enabled tier, and you can drop ads for $11.99 monthly. An annual plan costs the same as 10 months, so $59.99 for ad-enabled and $119.99 for ad-free. This is after a price change in August 2023 so it's unlikely the price will go up again before the games.
Your other option for watching the Olympic games is on broadcast TV, with a handful of channels confirmed to air coverage including USA, E!, CNBC, the Golf Channel, NBC, NBC Sports and Telemundo. The latter will offer Spanish-language commentary.
The exact schedule for which channel will air which sports has yet to be confirmed, but you'll have to either use a cable subscription or live TV streaming service to watch.
Each of the above channels is on DirecTV Stream, Fubo, Hulu with Live TV and YouTube TV, and Sling TV has them all too except NBC Sports. It's possible that, as we get closer to the Olympics, more channels will announce coverage too.
How to watch the 2024 Paris Olympic games in the UK
In the UK, it's the BBC that has broadcast rights for the Olympic games, so expect all your coverage to be on its various channels and also BBC Sports, with iPlayer your best place to watch online.
This means it's all free to license fee payers, though the BBC's coverage has typically been less extensive than other broadcasters, so if you're into the niche sports or want to see early rounds of games, it might not give you what you need.
TNT Sport (formerly Eurosport and BT Sports) will also be showing Olympic coverage, but the extent of its offerings has yet to be confirmed.
How to watch 2024 Paris Olympic games in Australia
The official and exclusive Olympics broadcaster in Australia is the Nine Network, and while a broadcast calendar hasn't been confirmed yet, this means you'll be able to watch via the company's various services including 9Network, 9Now and Stan.
9Now is free whereas Stan costs, so expect more thorough coverage on the latter, but we'll confirm more when Nine Network unveils its broadcast plans.
How to watch 2024 Paris Olympic games everywhere else
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Olympic sports
Here's a full list of each of the sports that'll be represented at the Paris Summer Olympics. There are 48 in total, though no country is entering athletes for every single sport.
The full Olympic schedule is so long that we couldn't possibly list it all here, and is only in an early state right now, though you can head to the official Olympic website for a rough idea of when your favorite sport might occur.
Archery
Artistic gymnastics
Artistic swimming
Athletics
Badmiton
Basketball
Basketball (3v3)
Beach volleyball
BMX freestyle cycling
BMX racing cycling
Boxing
Breaking
Diving
Dressage equestrian
Eventing equestrian
Fencing
Field hockey
Freestyle wrestling
Football
Golf
Greco-Roman wrestling
Handball
Judo
Jumping equestrian
Modern pentathlon
Marathon swimming
Mountain biking
Rhythmic gymnastics
Road cycling
Rowing
Rugby sevens
Sailing
Shooting
Skateboarding
Slalom canoeing
Spring canoeing
Sport climbing
Surfing
Swimming
Table tennis
Taekwondo
Tennis
Track cycling
Trampoline gymnastics
Triathlon
Volleyball
Water polo
Weightlifting
Olympic countries
Below you can find an entire list of all the countries confirmed to be fielding athletes in the 2024 Paris Olympics. We've also included the sports that they're entering, at least the ones that have been confirmed at the time of writing, though this list will grow as more athletes enter.
Algeria (athletics, cycling)
Argentina (cycling, rugby sevens)
Armenia (shooting)
Australia (artistic swimming, athletics, diving, equestrian, rugby sevens, shooting, surfing, swimming)
Austria (artistic swimming, athletics, shooting, swimming)
Azerbaijan (boxing, shooting)
Bahamas (athletics)
Bahrain (athletics)
Barbados (athletics)
Belgium (athletics, boxing, equestrian, swimming)
Bolivia (athletics)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (swimming)
Botswana (athletics)
Brazil (athletics, cycling, diving, football, rugby sevens, shooting, surfing, swimming)
British Virgin Islands (athletics)
Bulgaria (boxing, gymnastics, shooting, swimming)
Burkina Faso (athletics, cycling)
Cameroon (athletics)
Canada (athletics, cycling, diving, gymnastics)
China (athletics, cycling, diving, equestrian, gymnastics, shooting)
Chinese Taipei (athletics, shooting)
Colombia (athletics, diving, football)
Costa Rica (surfing)
Croatia (athletics, boxing)
Cuba (athletics, shooting)
Czech Republic (canoeing, modern pentathlon, shooting)
Denmark (boxing, equestrian, handball, shooting, swimming)
Djibouti (athletics)
Dominican Republic (athletics, football)
Ecuador (athletics)
Egypt (artistic swimming, football, modern pentathlon, shooting, swimming)
Eritrea (cycling)
Estonia (athletics, swimming)
Ethiopia (athletics)
Fiji (rugby sevens)
Finland (athletics)
France (archery, artistic swimming, athletics, badminton, basketball, boxing, breaking, canoeing, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, handball, judo, modern pentathlon, rubgy sevens, sailing, shooting, skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting)
The Gambia (athletics)
Georgia (boxing, shooting)
Germany (archery, athletics, canoeing, diving, equestrian, gymnastics, modern pentathlon, shooting, swimming, table tennis, triathlon)
Great Britain (archery, athletics, boxing, canoeing, diving, equestrian, gymnastics, modern pentathlon, rugby sevens, shooting, swimming, triathlon)
Greece (athletics, shooting, swimming)
Guatemala (athletics)
Hong Kong (swimming)
Hungary (athletics, boxing, modern pentathlon, shooting, swimming)
India (athletics, shooting)
Iran (shooting)
Ireland (athletics, boxing, equestrian, rugby sevens, swimming)
Israel (athletics, football, gymnastics, swimming)
Italy (archery, athletics, boxing, diving, gymnastics, modern pentathlon, shooting, surfing)
Jamaica (athletics)
Japan (athletics, cycling, diving, equestrian, gymnastics, surfing, swimming)
Kazakhstan (cycling)
Kenya (athletics)
Lithuania (athletics, modern pentathlon, swimming)
Luxembourg (athletics)
Malaysia (diving)
Mali (football)
Mexico (athletics, cycling, diving, swimming)
Moldova (archery)
Morocco (athletics, breaking, football)
Netherlands (athletics, breaking, equestrian, swimming)
New Zealand (artistic swimming, athletics, equestrian, rugby sevens, surfing)
Nigeria (athletics, cycling)
Norway (athletics, handball, shooting, swimming)
Pakistan (shooting)
Peru (athletics)
The Philippines (athletics)
Poland (athletics, equestrian, modern pentathlon, shooting, swimming)
Portugal (athletics, surfing, swimming)
Puerto Rico (athletics)
Qatar (athletics, shooting)
Romania (athletics, boxing, swimming)
Saint Lucia (athletics)
Saudi Arabia (equestrian)
Senegal (athletics)
Serbia (boxing, shooting)
Singapore (swimming)
Slovakia (shooting)
Slovenia (athletics)
South Africa (artistic swimming, athletics, cycling, diving, surfing, swimming)
South Korea (diving, shooting)
Spain (archery, athletics, boxing, diving, football, gymnastics, modern pentathlon, shooting, swimming)
Sweden (athletics, boxing, diving, equestrian, shooting, swimming)
Switzerland (athletics, cycling, equestrian, modern pentathlon, shooting, swimming)
Suriname (swimming)
Tanzania (athletics)
Thailand (cycling)
Trinidad and Tobago (athletics, swimming)
Tunisia (athletics, swimming)
Turkey (athletics, boxing, shooting, swimming)
Uganda (TBC)
Ukraine (athletics, boxing, diving, football, modern pentathlon, shooting, swimming)
United Arab Emirates (equestrian)
United States (athletics, basketball, cycling, diving, equestrian, football, gymnastics, judo, rugby sevens, shooting, surfing, swimming)
Uruguay (rugby sevens)
Venezuela (athletics)
Vietnam (cycling)
Zimbabwe (athletics)
Everything else you need to know about the 2024 Summer Olympics
When do the 2024 Summer Olympics take place?
The opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics takes place on Friday, July 26 2024, however competitions actually begin two days prior on Wednesday, July 24.
The competition continues until the closing ceremony on Sunday, August 11, which is the last day of play. However gold metal events go on from the first full day of games, on Saturday, July 27, all the way until the closing ceremony.
Towards the end of the two weeks, more and more events take place. While the first week generally has between 10 and 20 events daily, the last week sees that go to a peak of 39 the day before the closing ceremony.
Where does the 2024 Summer Olympics take place?
Paris, France is hosting the 2024 Summer Olympic games, and most of the competitions will take place within its city limits.
For example tennis and boxing take place at the Roland Garros Stadium, while fencing and taekwondo are hosted at the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées.
A few sports are taking place further afield in France. Football preliminaries and quarterfinals are taking place in Nice, Nantes, Bordeaux and more cities, while Vaires-sur-Marne gets some river sports including Rowing and the two canoeing strands, and the shooting contestants will need to shoot over to Châteauroux.
Only one event is taking place outside mainland France and that's surfing, which is being hosted in Tahiti in French Polynesia. This is nearly 16,000km from France, with a direct flight time of roughly 21 hours.
The Olympic Opening Ceremony will take place at the Jardins du Trocadéro while the Olympic Village is at L'Île-Saint-Denis in northern Paris.
