How to watch Athletics at Olympics 2024: free live streams and key dates, KJT leads heptathlon after first day (2024)

How to watch Athletics at Olympics 2024: free live streams and key dates, KJT leads heptathlon after first day (1)

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Watch athletics at Olympics 2024 with the track and field, for many, the highlight of any Summer Games. Below we have all the information on how to watch athletics at the 2024 Paris Olympics Games from anywhere in the world with details on worldwide TV channels, broadcasters and free streams.

Noah Lyles came to Paris 2024 promising that he would leave with 3 gold medals. He has already claimed one, that will not happen after he only got bronze in the 200m final. The race was won by Letsile Tebogo of Botswana, claiming the first gold medal ever for his country. The women's heptathlon began on Thursday, with Katarina Johnson-Thompson looking for the gold. She ended day one on top after throwing a personal best in the shot put and running a solid 200m. She is strong in the long-jump, one of the key events on the final day.

A highlight on the track on Friday will be the men's and women's 4x100 relays. Jamaica and the USA always put out strong teams, but Great Britain's men and women will be looking for a spot on the podium too, Also today in a packed schedule at the Stade de France, we have the women's 10,00m and men's 400m hurdles. The women's shot put will be decided too.

Here's where to watch athletics and 2024 Olympics live streams online from anywhere – including FREE options.

Watch Athletics at Olympics 2024 Quick Guide

Key Dates

  • Event dates: August 1 – August 11
  • Daily start: 4am ET / 9am BST

Best free streams

  • Channel 9 and 9Now(AUS)
  • CBC (CAN)
  • BBC TV and BBC iPlayer (UK)
  • Use NordVPN to watch from anywhere

FREE Athletics Olympics 2024 live stream broadcasters

You can watch athletics at Olympics 2024 for free with English language commentary on the BBC and iPlayer in the UK, RTE in Ireland, CBC in Canada and Channel 9 in Australia.

Channel 9 and the 9Now streaming service in Australia have the most comprehensive Olympics 2024 free-to-air coverage of all.

You can watch almost every session from every single 2024 Olympic event live and on demand through dedicated channels on the 9Now streaming service, including Olympic athletics.

Other, non-English language Olympics free streams can be found on ORF (Austria), RTBF (Belgium), VRT (Belgium), RDS (Canada), Chilevision (Chile), Caracol (Colombia), DR (Denmark), France TV (France), RAI (Italy), Yle (Finland), ARD (Germany), ZDF (Germany), RUV (Iceland), JioCinema (India), TV3 (Lithuania), NOS (Netherlands), NRK (Norway), TVP (Poland), SABC (South Africa), RTVE (Spain), SNRT (Morocco), Canal 5 (Mexico) and the SRG SSR channels (Switzerland).

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How to watch Athletics Olympic 2024 live streams in the US

The athletics live stream from Olympics 2024 is on Peaco*ck and NBC in the USA.

Broadcast rights to the 2024 Paris Olympics belong to NBC. All Olympics 2024 sessions are available to watch on Peaco*ck. Select events will also be on the NBC, USA and MSNBC cable channels.

If you don't have cable, Peaco*ck is the best option. You'll need a subscription to the ad-supported Peaco*ck Premium which is $7.99 per month, or ad-less Peaco*ck Plus which is $13.99 per month.

How to watch athletics Olympic 2024 live streams in the UK and Europe

While many public and national TV broadcasters have the TV and live stream rights to the Paris Olympic Games in the UK and Europe, it's the Discovery Plus subscription service that offers comprehensive coverage across the region.

Plans start at £6.99 per month, or the local equivalent, with 3,800 hours of live coverage across 55 channels. There's also a special offer running until 10 August where new subscribers pay £3.99 per month until the end of 2024.

The BBC and RTE are the places for free Olympics 2024 live streams in the UK and Ireland. You can find a list of other public broadcasters with Olympics 2024 broadcast rights across Europe in the Rest of the World section below.

Official Olympic Athletics broadcasters by region

Africa

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The Paris Olympics broadcast rights for Africa are largely split between BeIn Sports and SuperSport.

Residents of the following African countries can watch Olympics 2024 live streams with a BeIn Sports subscription:

Algeria, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Republic of the Sudan, Republic of South Sudan, Somalia and Tunisia.

Satellite TV provider SuperSport has the Olympics 2024 TV rights across these regions in Africa:

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, St Helena and Ascension, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

  • South Africa

National broadcaster SABC will host 2024 Olympic Games coverage on SABC Sport and the SABC Plus streaming service.

There will also be coverage on the SuperSport satellite channels.

Americas

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  • Canada

CBC has the rights to broadcast the Paris Olympics 2024. You can watch free-to-air events on CBC and the Olympics 2024 streams live and on-demand on CBC Gem.

CBC's Olympics 2024 coverage is one of the most comprehensive worldwide.

  • Latin America

América Móvil has the broadcast rights to the 2024 Paris Olympics across Latin America.

A number of public broadcasters across Latin America will also air some free Olympics 2024 TV coverage and free live streams, including the following:

  • Bolivia

Commercial television channel Bolovision will show the 2024 Olympic Games on TV in Bolivia.

  • Brazil

Grupo Globo has the rights to air the 2024 Olympic Games in Brazil and will show coverage of the games on TV Globo.

  • Chile

Chilevision has exclusive free-to-air rights to broadcast the 2024 Olympics on Chile with 200 hours of coverage. Digital coverage is on Pluto TV.

  • Colombia

National broadcaster Caracol Televisión will show the Paris Olympic Games to sports fans in Colombia. You can watch Olympics 2024 free live streams at Caracoltv.com.

  • Mexico

TelevisaUnivision is the TV rights holder for the Paris Olympics 2024 in Mexico.

Olympic events will be available to watch on the free-to-air Canal 5 TV channel as well as on the TUDN pay TV channel and Vix subscription streaming service.

  • Nicaragua

You can watch the Olympics 2024 on Canal 10 in Nicaragua.

  • Uruguay

National television network Canal 5 will show free coverage of the 2024 Paris Games on TV and Olympics live streams too.

Europe

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Warner Brothers have the broadcast rights to stream all Olympics 2024 events across Europe. That means that you can watch Paris 2024 on Discovery Plus in all European countries except Russia.

Many countries across Europe will also have some free Olympics 2024 coverage on their public national broadcasters, although, in most cases it will not be full comprehensive. The national broadcasters with rights to air the Paris Olympics on TV in Europe are as follows:

  • Austria

ORF in Austria will show free coverage of the 2024 Olympic Games.

  • Belgium

National broadcasters RTBF and VRT will stream coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympic games.

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina

You can watch some of the 2024 Olympic games on BHRT in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  • Bulgaria

Bulgarian National Television (BNT) has the rights to show events from the 2024 Olympic Games on television in Bulgaria.

  • Croatia

You can watch the Olympics 2024 free on public broadcaster HRT in Croatia.

  • Cyprus

Some Paris 2024 coverage will be hosted on CyBC in Cyprus.

  • Czechia

Public broadcaster CT has the rights to air Olympics 2024 live streams in Czechia.

  • Denmark

Danes can watch free 2024 Paris Olympics Games coverage on DR and TV 2.

  • Estonia

Duo Media Networks will air coverage of the Olympic Games 2024 on its Duo TV channels in Estonia.

  • Finland

The Finish Broadcast Company (Yle) will air the 2024 Olympic Games on TV in Finland.

  • France

There will be free coverage of events from the 2024 Paris Olympics Games on public broadcaster France TV in France.

  • Germany

Germany's two major public broadcasters, ARD and ZDF, will both show the 2024 Olympics on TV in Germany.

  • Greece

State-owned public television broadcaster ERT will show the 2024 Olympic Games on TV in Greece.

  • Hungary

State media station MTVA has the rights to air some Olympic 2024 events in Hungary.

  • Ireland

RTE in Ireland will broadcast free coverage of the 2024 Olympics Games.

  • Italy

Viewers in Italy can watch the 2024 Olympics Game for free on RAI.

  • Kosovo

RTK will broadcast the Paris 2024 Games on TV in Kosovo.

  • Latvia

Latvia's LTV will host free coverage of the 2024 Olympic Games.

  • Lithuania

People in Lithuania can watch some of the Olympics Games 2024 for free on TV3.

  • Moldova and Romania

TVR is the broadcaster for coverage of Paris 2024 on TV in both Romania and Moldova.

  • Netherlands

NOS has the rights to host Olympics 2024 live streams in the Netherlands.

  • Norway

Public broadcaster NRK will show the Olympics Games on TV in Norway.

  • Poland

You can watch the Olympics 2024 in Poland free on TVP.

  • Portugal

National channel RTP has the rights to air Paris 2024 events in Portugal.

  • Serbia

RTS will show free coverage of the 2024 Olympic Games in Serbia.

  • Sweden

Warner-owned Kanal 5 is the place to watch the Paris Olympic Games in Sweden.

  • Switzerland

Switzerland's SRG SSR group will show free coverage of the 2024 Olympics in four languages across SRF (German), RTS (French), RSI (Italian) and RTR (Romansh).

  • Turkey

TRT in Turkey will host some coverage of the Olympics 2024.

  • Ukraine

National broadcaster Suspilne will have coverage of the Paris Olympics in Ukraine.

  • United Kingdom

The BBC will show Paris 2024 on its TV channels as well as hosting Olympics live streams on iPlayer and the BBC website. Comprehensive coverage can be found on Discovery Plus.

Asia

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  • China

State media division CCTV will show coverage of the 2024 Olympics in China. There will also be sports from the Paris Games aired through Migu, Douyin, Kuaishou and Tencent.

  • Hong Kong

There are plenty of options for watching the 2024 Olympics to Hong Kong, including public broadcaster RTHK as well as HOY TV, PCCW and TVB.

  • India

Viacom18 has the rights to Paris 2024 in India. That's great news because it means that people in India can watch Olympics 2024 for free on JioCinema on their mobile phones.

There will be 18 simultaneous feeds to choose from which will mean very comprehensive Olympics 2024 live stream coverage.

Viacom also has the TV rights across subcontinental India with Olympics TV coverage and streams in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

  • Indonesia

Indonesia's Emtek media company has the broadcast rights for the 2024 Olympic Games.

  • Japan

National broadcaster NHK has the rights to show Olympics 2024 live streams in Japan.

  • Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan's public broadcasting channel KTRK will show free-to-air coverage of the Paris Olympic Games.

  • Macau

Public broadcaster TDM has the rights to show the Paris Olympic Games on TV in Macau.

  • Mongolia

Central TV will show the coverage of the Paris Olympics on TV in Mongolia.

  • Pakistan

The ARY digital network will show Olympics 2024 live streams across its channels in Pakistan.

  • Philippines

Viewers in the Philippines have plenty of options for watching 2024 Olympics Games with Cignal TV, PLDT, Smart ad TV5 all airing coverage from Paris.

  • Singapore

State-owned Mediacorp network has the TV rights to the 2024 Olympics in Singapore.

  • South Korea

South Korean national broadcaster KBS will show free coverage of the 2024 Olympics. You can also watch the Paris Games on MBC and SBS.

  • Thailand

Viewers in Thailand have a number of options for watching the 2024 Olympics Games live streams and on TV with events aired across AIS, TrueVisions, T Sports 7, MCOT, 7HD and PPTV.

Oceania

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  • Australia

Nine Network will have comprehensive coverage of the Games from Paris. Viewers can watch Olympics 2024 live streams free on 9Now.

Paid subscription service, Stan will also cover all 329 events, ad-free, live and on-demand and in 4K resolution too.

  • New Zealand & Pacific Islands

Sky Sport is the 2024 Olympic Games TV rights holder in New Zealand and across the Pacific Islands, including: Cook Islands, Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

Middle East

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BeIN Sports MENA is the primary Olympics 2024 broadcaster across the Middle East.

You can watch the Paris Olympics 2024 live streams with a subscription to BeIn Sports in the following Middle East countries:

Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

  • Israel

Sports Channel / Sport 5 will host coverage of the 2024 Olympic Games in Israel.

Can I watch 2024 Olympic athletics for free?

Check your local broadcaster above but people in the UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland and many other nations listed have free Olympics 2024 coverage as well as subscription broadcasters.

Those in Australia and Canada can watch almost every session of every Olympics 2024 event for free on 9Now and CBC. That will very likely include athletics free live streams.

Remember that, if you're traveling away from home, you can use a VPN to watch the 2024 Olympics free from abroad on your usual streaming service.

When is the athletics at the 2024 Olympics?

The 2024 Olympic athletics takes place between August 1 – 11. Start times are at approximately 4am ET/9am BST each day.

The next session is on Friday, August 9 at 4am ET/9 am BST. It is going to be available on Peaco*ck and NBC/USA in the USA and on BBC iPlayer, BBC One/ BBC Two and Discovery Plus and Eurosport One/Eurosport Two in the UK.

The 2024 Olympic athletics medal days and finals take place between August 1-11.

Can I watch 2024 Olympic athletics on my mobile?

Of course, most broadcasters have streaming services that you can access through mobile apps or via your phone's browser.

You can also stay up-to-date with all 2024 Olympic Games events on the official social media channels on X/Twitter (@Olympics), Instagram (@Olympics), TikTok (@Olympics) and YouTube (@Olympics).

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