July 2, 2024 – Prepare to be swept off your feet this summer with live coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games across the BBC, as the world’s biggest sporting event takes centre stage in the city of love.

From 26 July – 11 August the BBC is bringing people together so they can fall head over heels watching, listening to and reading about the biggest moments at Paris 2024 as they happen, across comprehensive, free-to-air, multiplatform coverage.

• Watch the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on BBC iPlayer below

• Follow all the latest Paris 2024 news on the BBC Sport website below

BBC Sport once again offers access to all that matters at this year’s Games. One live channel and one live stream will showcase all the best action and the best of British sporting storytelling, all day every day. BBC One and BBC Two will broadcast over 250 hours of live coverage across the entire 16-day event; whilst Olympics Extra, a second curated live stream on BBC iPlayer, will ensure that none of the breathtaking moments are missed.

A special Olympic schedule is running across the duration of the event on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds, and fans can also keep up with the biggest news stories and medal winning moments on the BBC Sport website and app, and across social media.

Leading BBC Sport’s TV coverage are presenters Clare Balding, Gabby Logan, Hazel Irvine, Isa Guha, Jeanette Kwakye, JJ Chalmers and Mark Chapman. Joining the stellar guest line up for the first time are most decorated female Olympian Laura Kenny, TV personality Fred Sirieix, British long jumper Jazmin Sawyers, Olympic gold medalist Moe Sbihi, and Olympic bronze medalist Vicky Holland. Adrian Chiles, Eleanor Oldroyd, Kelly Cates, Mark Chapman, Naga Munchetty and Tony Livesey lead BBC Radio 5 Live’s extensive coverage.

With Olympic fever building, the BBC’s Paris 2024 trailer will premiere over the UEFA Euro 2024 Round of 16 weekend on BBC One and iPlayer.

Alex Kay-Jelski, Director of BBC Sport says: “For the first time since London 2012 we have an Olympic Games taking place in a European time zone, which is really exciting for UK audiences. People can tune in to live coverage morning, noon, and night, following all the biggest sporting moments as they happen. We are broadcasting hundreds of hours of coverage on free-to-air platforms and our two carefully curated live feeds and covering all the big stories online, across social media and radio, meaning audiences can keep up to date with all the best of British sporting stories by simply sitting back, relaxing and enjoying the sport.”

TV and BBC iPlayer

There is live TV coverage across BBC One, BBC Two and BBC iPlayer, providing access to all 32 events at Paris 2024, plus a nightly highlights programme will recap all the best bits.

Alongside the extensive coverage on network TV, Olympics Extra, a fully scheduled live stream on BBC iPlayer, follows the biggest moments across every event so that audiences can simply soak up the action.

The highly anticipated opening ceremony takes place from 6.30pm on Friday 26 July on BBC One and iPlayer. Clare Balding is presenting in the studio, with Hazel Irvine and Andrew Cotter commentating. Prepare for a sporting spectacle as each nation arrives on Paris’ famous river, Seine.

Live coverage commences at 8am on Saturday 27 July on BBC One. From the BBC’s studio in central Paris, Jeanette Kwakye and JJ Chalmers are welcoming audiences each morning to the day’s events. Hazel Irvine picks up proceedings at 1pm on BBC Two, before returning to BBC One at 2pm, after the News at One. Evenings are looked after by Clare Balding and Gabby Logan, with Clare reporting live from the swimming events before Gabby takes the reigns at the athletics.

Highlights of the day’s events are expertly summarised by Mark Chapman and Isa Guha on Tonight at the Games from 10.40pm-midnight on BBC One.

It’s not just the live coverage on network TV that people at home can enjoy. Olympics Extra, a curated live stream on BBC iPlayer and Red Button, is covering the unmissable moments in one place, so that audiences don’t miss the action.

Joining the BBC Sport presenters are a stellar lineup of studio guests including Beth Tweddle, Chris Hoy, Denise Lewis, Fred Sirieix, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Kate Richardson-Walsh, Katherine Grainger, Laura Kenny, Mark Foster, Michael Johnson, Nicola Adams, Rebecca Adlington and Tonia Couch, who will all share their analysis and expertise.

A team of expert commentators and reporters are bringing the biggest news and medal winning moment from event venues across the French capital.