Rhythmic gymnastics and synchronised swimming

There was loads of artistic gymnastics (beam, floor, bars etc) but not much of the rhythmic gymnastics (ball, hoop, ribbon).

The Artistic Swimming was on the highlights bbc show last night. Gymnastics was all over the tv in the earlier days as that is when it was on.

That's great, thanks @Singleandproud , will get hunting!

The BBC screwed up their Olympics subscription and got the lowest version this year that's why there's a serious lack of coverage for all sports and far too much talking heads opposed to the last few years when you could ' Red button' any sport

They didn't screw it up "this year". This was the case for the Tokyo Olympics too.

"Why didn't the BBC just pay more to have everything?
Quite simply because we take decisions over our spending very seriously as it is licence fee payers' money that we are using.
As much as we'd like to, we can't buy everything we want."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/cjk3vkpxz1po

I haven’t watched much of the Olympics but one bit I did catch was the synchro swimming (or Artistic Swimming as it seems to be called in various places). It might not have got as much coverage as the athletics for example, but it was there.

And men have been able to join the teams in the Olympics for quite some time now. Whether they actually make the team is another matter, of course.

@WickieRoy I've edited my post to include the iPlayer information.

We generally don't have many medals players in these sports so I dare say that's why there has been less coverage due to the BBC issue. You could get the Discovery app, or just watch performances on YouTube.

I really wanted to show my DDs these sports as I think they'd love them. Does anyone have a rough idea of when the BBC televised them if they did? Scrolling through iPlayer is impossible if you don't know the feed and the time.

Discovery + have the TV rights for these sports and others. £3.99 for the month, I believe.

I always watched these as a kid too. I'm not sure what happened this year. I also noticed it wasn't as readily available as I'm used to. I'd be slow to jump to a conclusion why this is the case. (That said, I wouldn't put it past the BBC)

What are you talking about, I've watched both of these every Olympics forever. SS is televised during the European Championships ( we went to Glasgow to watch it was amazing). EuroSport and other online outlets regularly show other competitions.

The BBC screwed up their Olympics subscription and got the lowest version this year that's why there's a serious lack of coverage for all sports and far too much talking heads opposed to the last few years when you could ' Red button' any sport

It's only a women's sport in the Olympics by the way, Men compete in other competitions

iPlayer - Artistic swimming Day 15, rhythmic gymnastics day 14

For full broadcasting for all sports you need to pay for a Discovery TV subscription

They are televised…