PARIS 2024: DISCOVERY+ COVERAGE PLANS AND PRESENTING LINE-UP
Every moment of Paris 2024 will be live only on discovery+, the streaming home of the Olympics - All the action on discovery+ is available for just £3.99 with an Olympics offer. And there will be wall-to-wall linear coverage on Eurosport 1&2, along with 7 dedicated Olympic ‘pop-up’ channels.
Eurosport’s UK & Ireland presentation team, boasting 19 Olympic and Paralympic medals between them, will provide unmatched expertise and inside-views, bringing fans closer to the athletes and their stories than ever before.
Shauna Coxsey, Great Britain’s most-decorated sport climber, and James Cracknell, a two-time rowing Coxless Four gold medal winner, will provide expert commentary across their respective events.
Five-time Olympian Tom Daley joins the Eurosport on-screen team at the end of his competition, as he bids to defend his diving 10m synchronised title.
Lutalo Muhammad, a two-time taekwondo Olympic medallist, Joanna Rowsell, a two-time Olympic track cycling team pursuit, and Stef Reid, a two-time track and field Paralympic medallist, will also form part of the punditry team.
Ellie Simmonds, a five-time Paralympic swimming champion, Iwan Thomas, a 4x400m relay silver medallist, and Nile Wilson, a bronze winner in the gymnastics horizontal bar in Rio 2016, will be offering specialist punditry and analysis.
Orla Chennaoui, known for leading Eurosport’s cycling coverage and featuring in previous Olympics programming, will present Bonjour Paris; Eurosport 1’s live daily morning show from 7.00am previewing the headline events each day.
Laura Woods, who leads TNT Sports’ UEFA Champions League action, will host Bonsoir Paris, the channel’s live daily evening show from 9.00pm, revisiting all the key talking points and stories that day. Delivered from the WBD House rooftop studio, both will be joined by special guests, book-ending the live competition coverage throughout the Games.
The full list of Olympic presenters and pundits in the UK & Ireland includes: Adam Blythe (Cycling), Orla Chennaoui (Presenter), Radzi Chinyanganya (Reporter), Reshmin Chowdhury (Reporter), Shauna Coxsey (Sport Climbing), James Cracknell (Rowing), Tom Daley (Diving).
Plus Caroline de Moraes (Hub Reporter), Craig Doyle (Presenter), Jaydee Dyer (Hub Reporter), Carl Frampton (Boxing), Becky Ives (Hub Reporter), Kate Mason (Hub Reporter), Ugo Monye (Rugby Sevens), Lutalo Muhammad (Taekwondo), Stef Reid (Track and Field).
And Laura Robson (Tennis), Joanna Rowsell (Cycling), Matt Smith (Hub Reporter), Rachel Stringer (Hub Reporter), Ellie Simmonds (Swimming), Lizzie Simmonds (Co-Commentator), Iwan Thomas (Track and Field), Nile Wilson (Gymnastics), Laura Winter (Hub Reporter), Laura Woods (Presenter).
Laura Woods will also lead the coverage of the Opening Ceremony alongside Craig Doyle live from Paris on 26 July, with Iwan Thomas and other guests alongside them throughout.
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