Why is it so difficult to watch the Olympics??

[SmileLady]

Sorry if this has already been posted and discussed
.but why is it so difficult to watch the Olympics. All I wanna do is watch the men's gold matchtennis and they switched to shooting.......

I signed up for a free trail for Discovery+ so I can watch the events I enjoy that aren't being televised because I got sick of putting the TV on for one event and it suddenly swaps to another.

Hopefully next time it will be better

They showed the first set and then moved to shooting.

Frustrating to be outbid and that it always comes down to money, not with BBC.

This.
I've done the same.

BBC coverage this this Olympics has been rubbish. The presenters are ok but the switching between events winds me up. I think they are only allowed to show 2 live events at a time. It's like they watch the best bits and then show you the highlights. Nothing beats watching live. You just know that if the Beeb are showing something then we've either won or something exciting has happened.

Olympics.com has all the schedules, results, etc
I've saved this link to my favourites. I've got it saved to show team GB but you can tweak it to suit yourself

Team Great Britain Schedule | Paris 2024 Olympics

I'm either watching on Discovery+ or listening on 5Live, the BBC TV coverage has been rubbish.

It’s annoying that we have to pay, but Discovery Plus is only £3.99 for this month, and has loads of sports on it. It’s been great.

Yes it's really frustrating. I understand why, but it's still frustrating.

Plus, RTE don't have the rights in NI, so any time there's an Irish athlete in contention we need to cross our fingers that the BBC choose to show the event. In fairness the BBC does seem to be aware of this as they've shown most of the key bits, and clearly been making an effort to refer to Team GB & NI.

It's all on Discovery. It's £3.99 for a month at the moment. I'll just cancel it after the Olympics.

I succumbed to Discovery too.
its so frustrating to be just getting into something and then they switch it over.

Thanks everyone
I had no idea I was on discovery +

DH has this free via his phone contract so we linked the laptop to the TV and have been using this.

I appreciate all your comments.

Agree. Every time I'm getting into something they switch to something else.

All this just goes to show how important the BBC is to us. We're used to excellent, world class programming, and when we don't get it we're all like "WTF?"

And people want it defunded?

That's a good point about the quality, although you could argue UK productions in general are very, very good compared to other countries (see the opening ceremonies!).

I think people want value for the significant investment already being made, not defunding. I've worked with the BBC on several projects and have friends who work there. The talent is top tier but the levels and layers of waste are just staggering. NHS management would be shocked at the waste.

Agreed . I don't love all sports but it's impossible to watch the ones I do want . The schedules are all over the place and I can't sit in front of the telly all day hoping to see what I want .

Yes I was disappointed with the BBC coverage; all over the place so I moved to Discovery (£3.99 a month via Amazon). Its been great to be able to pick my favourite sports and watch them without disruption. Loved the Archery yesterday. I'll probably cancel at some point then resubscribe for the Winter Olympics (my favourite).

I think to be fair to the BBC they went to the golf and shooting for GB medals (both were silver) which is a good rule of thumb Eurosport also has some on it and Discovery Plus is great!

the bbc also don’t have there own camera set up they are beholden to the French camera team - clearly seen in events such as the trialthon and gymnastics

We found, late in the day, we already have Discovery. It's a real shame though - the BBC does excellent sport coverage when it can do it properly.

The reason UK productions are so good is because of the BBC and Channel 4. (Publicly Funded channels)They're excellent, because they have to be, and so others have to be to compete.

I agree with the waste, but I gather it's a million times better now.

I wonder why nobody moans about Channel 4, I think don't realise that is this part funded by the government too.

Yes, lots of blurry shots, random stills of nothing, camera jolts to somewhere random. The editor or whoever is controlling the feed is not great!

I only like the gymnastics and its a been really hard to find. The women's seems to have a fair amount on the must see clips but only pommel horse there for the men.