All the pieces you could know to catch all of the motion in Paris this summer time.
Final up to date on July nineteenth, 2024
Maintain on to your butts — the 2024 Olympics are proper across the nook. This summer time’s Olympic Video games in Paris, France, start on Jul. 26 and run via Aug. 11. This 12 months’s weightlifting occasions, although, don’t kick off till Aug. 7.
For those who’re a Parisian, this text in all probability isn’t for you. However should you’re attempting to determine learn how to watch weightlifting occasions on the 2024 Olympics, we’ve obtained you lined. This text will clarify your viewing choices and supply an summary of BarBend’s personal in-house protection.
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2024 Olympics Weightlifting Schedule
Bear in mind: The Video games could kick off on Jul. 26 with the opening ceremonies — which is able to embrace the entire 2024 Olympians floating down Paris’ Seine river — however weightlifting occasions is not going to start till Aug. 7.
Right here’s a breakdown of the timetable for all weightlifting occasions on the 2024 Olympics. All instances are listed in Jap Customary Time and are topic to vary:
Wednesday, August 7
- 9:00 a.m.: Males 61KG
- 1:30 p.m.: Ladies 49KG
Thursday, August 8
- 9:00 a.m.: Ladies 59KG
- 1:30 p.m.: Males 73KG
Friday, August 9
- 9:00 a.m.: Males 89KG
- 1:30 p.m.: Ladies 71KG
Saturday, August 10
- 5:30 a.m.: Males 102KG
- 10:00 a.m.: Ladies 81KG
- 2:30 p.m.: Males +102KG
Sunday, August 11
How To Watch Weightlifting on the 2024 Olympics
For viewers in international locations apart from the USA, check with this doc from the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) to search out out which organizations have broadcast rights in your nation or territory.
American viewers (in addition to anybody in territories belonging to or related to the U.S.) have a pair completely different choices in terms of watching the 2024 Olympics dwell.
Whether or not you’re a cord-cutter who prefers streaming from the consolation of your sofa (or mattress) otherwise you’re holding on to your primetime cable subscription, you possibly can have all of the motion at your fingertips.
Cable Broadcasting
- NBCSports will showcase their “Primetime in Paris” protection nightly at 8:00 p.m. Jap Customary Time.
- NBC has printed its full cable broadcast schedule, which you’ll check with at any time to study what occasions are at the moment airing on NBC.
- After verifying a cable subscription, cable customers can even stream any Olympic occasion on NBCOlympics.com and on the NPC Sports activities app.
“We can even be posting every day listings that look two days forward every day of the Olympics,” an NBC Sports activities consultant tells BarBend. These previews begin Monday, Jul. 22, and you’ll find them right here.
[Op-Ed: Does Weightlifting Suck To Watch in 2024?]
Stay Stream
- Streamers can watch all 329 medal occasions throughout the 2024 Olympics by subscribing to NBC’s streaming service, Peacock.
- Peacock’s occasion streams embrace full replays at any time in addition to bonus commentary content material.
- Peacock presents a number of subscription choices, together with month-to-month charges beginning at $7.99 (with adverts).
“Peacock will characteristic all linear programming, full-event replays, originals, clips, and rather more,” explains NBC Sports activities to BarBend.
2024 Olympics Protection by BarBend
Because the main identify in power sports activities information, BarBend is proud to supply in depth and up-to-the-minute written protection of all weightlifting occasions on the 2024 Olympics. Readers can tune in to BarBend for written reporting of all of the motion from each weight class occasion in addition to the medalists in every division.
It’s also possible to cease by our homepage at any time between Aug. 7 and 11 to examine in on our all-in-one outcomes web page because the Video games progress. Till then, we encourage you to whet your urge for food by trying out our in depth pre-Paris editorial catalog.
[Related: Our 2024 Olympics Weightlifting Predictions]
Workforce USA Athlete Profiles by BarBend & USA Weightlifting
Followers of Ladies’s super-heayweight Mary Theisen-Lappen (+81KG) can discover her profile dwell on BarBend on Saturday, Jul. 20 at 12:00 p.m. Jap Customary Time.
Editorial Protection
BarBend is proud to supply quite a lot of completely different editorial articles and lead-up content material forward of the motion in Paris. Be happy to take a look at any of our pre-Video games lead-up content material whereas the barbells are being loaded!
BarBend correspondent Brian Oliver talks store with 71-kilogram leaderboard topper Olivia Reeves of Workforce USA and her coach Steve Fauer.
After a multi-year hiatus from the game, Workforce North Korea rewrote weightlifting’s file books in 2023 and 2024. However they received’t be in Paris this August.
Years of bureaucratic corruption have led to the repeated diminishment of weightlifting on the Olympic Video games. Correspondent Brian Oliver explains why some weightlifters will march in Paris below clean flags.
BarBend sits down with 2020 Olympian Caine Wilkes to foretell the rostrum in every weight class occasion on the 2024 Olympics.
Most of the Olympic information in weightlifting stand unclaimed — in the intervening time. Right here’s what the file ebook seems to be like earlier than new names are inked in Paris this summer time.
2024 Olympics Commentary by Weightlifting Home
Our pals at Weightlifting Home can even provide dwell video commentary of the lifting in Paris. Whereas WH doesn’t maintain any broadcasting rights, founder Seb Ostrowicz and commentator Max Aita will conduct round-table “watch events,” together with discussions and commentary of every weightlifting occasion dwell and after the classes wrap.
- “We’ll be internet hosting every day previews and post-event recaps dwell on WH.television,” founder and commentator Seb Ostrowicz tells BarBend.
You possibly can tune in to the WH protection by subscribing to Weightlifting Home TV, which additionally comprises behind-the-scenes promotional materials and documentaries of the weightlifters who made it to Paris. A WH.television subscription prices $9.99 per thirty days.
Extra Weightlifting Information
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