Olympic Games to remain free to air on BBC up to 2032

The BBC’s existing statement included TV, vigor and integer rights for the Paris 2024 Olympics

Every Olympic Games up to and including the 2032 summertime Games volition proceed to beryllium shown escaped to aerial crossed the BBC.

"The Olympic Games is simply a genuinely peculiar lawsuit - thrilling and inspiring successful adjacent measure," said BBC manager wide Tim Davie.

"I'm delighted it volition beryllium connected escaped to aerial for the UK public."

The 2024 summertime Olympics volition beryllium hosted successful Paris, France. In 2028 they volition beryllium staged successful Los Angeles successful the United States and the 2032 Games volition beryllium successful Brisbane, Australia.

The 2026 Winter Olympics volition instrumentality spot successful Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, with the 2030 hosts inactive to beryllium decided.

Tokyo 2020 saw a record-breaking 104 cardinal requests to ticker the enactment online passim the duration of the Games, portion 36.4 cardinal watched connected BBC TV.

Barbara Slater, manager of BBC Sport, said: "This concern ensures that audiences successful the UK volition proceed to person free-to-air entree to the Olympic Games for the adjacent decade.

"The BBC's quality to bring the federation unneurotic is 2nd to nary and this caller woody provides sports fans a comprehensive, compelling unrecorded and on-demand offer."

The BBC has partnered with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Warner Bros Discovery for the coverage.

Noel Curran, the manager wide of the EBU, a European confederation of nationalist work media organisations, added: "Sport should beryllium for everyone, and we request nationalist work media to bring each audiences unneurotic to bask the large nationalist moments, animate the adjacent procreation of athletes and turn fanbases for caller and emerging sports."

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