Watch a replay of the Opening Ceremony at Olympics 2024 as the perfect appetizer to the festival of sports that lies ahead for next two weeks. Below we have all the information on how to watch the opening ceremony at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games on-demand, on catch-up, from anywhere in the world with details on worldwide TV channels, broadcasters and free streams today.
The heavens opened and Paris made a splash. Lady Gaga and Céline Dion sang their duet of Édith Piaf’s L’Hymne à l’amour, Kelly Clarkson performed, Zinedine Zidane and even the Minions made an appearance. And it was over to French judoka Teddy Riner and sprinter Marie-José Pére to light the Olympic flame and officially mark the opening of the Games.
Missed it? Don't worry. We're not going to spoil it all for you because you can watch a replay of the 2024 Opening Ceremony right now, and for free. We'll show you how to do that just below. Allez! Allez!
Watch opening ceremony at Olympics 2024 Quick Guide
Key Dates
- Sates: Friday, July 26
- Start time: 1.30pm ET / 6.30pm BST
Best free streams
- Channel 9 and 9Now (AUS)
- CBC (CAN)
- BBC TV and BBC iPlayer (UK)
- Use NordVPN to watch from anywhere
FREE opening ceremony Olympics 2024 live stream broadcasters
You can watch the Olympics 2024 opening ceremony for free with English language commentary on the BBC and iPlayer in the UK, RTÉ in Ireland, CBC in Canada and Channel 9 in Australia.
Channel 9 and the 9Now streaming service in Australia have the most comprehensive Olympics 2024 free-to-air coverage of all.
You can watch almost every session from every single 2024 Olympic event live and on demand through dedicated channels on the 9Now streaming service, including the Olympic opening ceremony.
- 9Now – Australia
- CBC – Canada
- BBC iPlayer – UK
- RTÉ – Ireland
Other, non-English language Olympics free streams can be found on ORF (Austria), RTBF (Belgium), VRT (Belgium), RDS (Canada), Chilevision (Chile), Caracol (Colombia), DR (Denmark), France TV (France), RAI (Italy), Yle (Finland), ARD (Germany), ZDF (Germany), RUV (Iceland), JioCinema (India), TV3 (Lithuania), NOS (Netherlands), NRK (Norway), TVP (Poland), SABC (South Africa), RTVE (Spain), SNRT (Morocco), Canal 5 (Mexico) and the SRG SSR channels (Switzerland).
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How to watch Olympic 2024 opening ceremony live streams in the US
The opening ceremony live stream from Olympics 2024 is on NBC in the USA.
Broadcast rights to the 2024 Paris Olympics belong to NBC. All Olympics 2024 sessions are available to watch on Peacock. Select events will also be on the NBC, USA and MSNBC cable channels.
If you don't have cable, Peacock is the best option. You'll need a subscription to the ad-supported Peacock Premium which is $7.99 per month, or ad-less Peacock Plus which is $13.99 per month.
How to watch Olympic 2024 opening ceremony live streams in the UK and Europe
While many public and national TV broadcasters have the TV and live stream rights to the Paris Olympic Games in the UK and Europe, it's the Discovery Plus subscription service that offers comprehensive coverage across the region.
Plans start at £6.99 per month, or the local equivalent, with 3,800 hours of live coverage across 55 channels. There's also a special offer running until 10 August where new subscribers pay £3.99 per month until the end of 2024.
The BBC and RTÉ are the places for free Olympics 2024 live streams in the UK and Ireland. You can find a list of other public broadcasters with Olympics 2024 broadcast rights across Europe in the Rest of the World section below.
Official Olympic opening ceremony broadcasters by region
Africa
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The Paris Olympics broadcast rights for Africa are largely split between BeIn Sports and SuperSport.
Residents of the following African countries can watch Olympics 2024 live streams with a BeIn Sports subscription:
Algeria, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Republic of the Sudan, Republic of South Sudan, Somalia and Tunisia.
Satellite TV provider SuperSport has the Olympics 2024 TV rights across these regions in Africa:
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, St Helena and Ascension, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
- South Africa
National broadcaster SABC will host 2024 Olympic Games coverage on SABC Sport and the SABC Plus streaming service.
There will also be coverage on the SuperSport satellite channels.
Americas
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- Canada
CBC has the rights to broadcast the Paris Olympics 2024. You can watch free-to-air events on CBC and the Olympics 2024 streams live and on-demand on CBC Gem.
CBC's Olympics 2024 coverage is one of the most comprehensive worldwide.
- Latin America
América Móvil has the broadcast rights to the 2024 Paris Olympics across Latin America.
A number of public broadcasters across Latin America will also air some free Olympics 2024 TV coverage and free live streams, including the following:
- Bolivia
Commercial television channel Bolovision will show the 2024 Olympic Games on TV in Bolivia.
- Brazil
Grupo Globo has the rights to air the 2024 Olympic Games in Brazil and will show coverage of the games on TV Globo.
- Chile
Chilevision has exclusive free-to-air rights to broadcast the 2024 Olympics on Chile with 200 hours of coverage. Digital coverage is on Pluto TV.
- Colombia
National broadcaster Caracol Televisión will show the Paris Olympic Games to sports fans in Colombia. You can watch Olympics 2024 free live streams at Caracoltv.com.
- Mexico
TelevisaUnivision is the TV rights holder for the Paris Olympics 2024 in Mexico.
Olympic events will be available to watch on the free-to-air Canal 5 TV channel as well as on the TUDN pay TV channel and Vix subscription streaming service.
- Nicaragua
You can watch the Olympics 2024 on Canal 10 in Nicaragua.
- Uruguay
National television network Canal 5 will show free coverage of the 2024 Paris Games on TV and Olympics live streams too.
Europe
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Warner Brothers have the broadcast rights to stream all Olympics 2024 events across Europe. That means that you can watch Paris 2024 on Discovery Plus in all European countries except Russia.
Many countries across Europe will also have some free Olympics 2024 coverage on their public national broadcasters, although, in most cases it will not be full comprehensive. The national broadcasters with rights to air the Paris Olympics on TV in Europe are as follows:
- Austria
ORF in Austria will show free coverage of the 2024 Olympic Games.
- Belgium
National broadcasters RTBF and VRT will stream coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympic games.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
You can watch some of the 2024 Olympic games on BHRT in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Bulgaria
Bulgarian National Television (BNT) has the rights to show events from the 2024 Olympic Games on television in Bulgaria.
- Croatia
You can watch the Olympics 2024 free on public broadcaster HRT in Croatia.
- Cyprus
Some Paris 2024 coverage will be hosted on CyBC in Cyprus.
- Czechia
Public broadcaster CT has the rights to air Olympics 2024 live streams in Czechia.
- Denmark
Danes can watch free 2024 Paris Olympics Games coverage on DR and TV 2.
- Estonia
Duo Media Networks will air coverage of the Olympic Games 2024 on its Duo TV channels in Estonia.
- Finland
The Finish Broadcast Company (Yle) will air the 2024 Olympic Games on TV in Finland.
- France
There will be free coverage of events from the 2024 Paris Olympics Games on public broadcaster France TV in France.
- Germany
Germany's two major public broadcasters, ARD and ZDF, will both show the 2024 Olympics on TV in Germany.
- Greece
State-owned public television broadcaster ERT will show the 2024 Olympic Games on TV in Greece.
- Hungary
State media station MTVA has the rights to air some Olympic 2024 events in Hungary.
- Ireland
RTÉ in Ireland will broadcast free coverage of the 2024 Olympics Games.
- Italy
Viewers in Italy can watch the 2024 Olympic Games for free on RAI.
- Kosovo
RTK will broadcast the Paris 2024 Games on TV in Kosovo.
- Latvia
Latvia's LTV will host free coverage of the 2024 Olympic Games.
- Lithuania
People in Lithuania can watch some of the Olympics Games 2024 for free on TV3.
- Moldova and Romania
TVR is the broadcaster for coverage of Paris 2024 on TV in both Romania and Moldova.
- Netherlands
NOS has the rights to host Olympics 2024 live streams in the Netherlands.
- Norway
Public broadcaster NRK will show the Olympics Games on TV in Norway.
- Poland
You can watch the Olympics 2024 in Poland free on TVP.
- Portugal
National channel RTP has the rights to air Paris 2024 events in Portugal.
- Serbia
RTS will show free coverage of the 2024 Olympic Games in Serbia.
- Sweden
Warner-owned Kanal 5 is the place to watch the Paris Olympic Games in Sweden.
- Switzerland
Switzerland's SRG SSR group will show free coverage of the 2024 Olympics in four languages across SRF (German), RTS (French), RSI (Italian) and RTR (Romansh).
- Turkey
TRT in Turkey will host some coverage of the Olympics 2024.
- Ukraine
National broadcaster Suspilne will have coverage of the Paris Olympics in Ukraine.
- United Kingdom
The BBC will show Paris 2024 on its TV channels as well as hosting Olympics live streams on iPlayer and the BBC website. Comprehensive coverage can be found on Discovery Plus.
Asia
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- China
State media division CCTV will show coverage of the 2024 Olympics in China. There will also be sports from the Paris Games aired through Migu, Douyin, Kuaishou and Tencent.
- Hong Kong
There are plenty of options for watching the 2024 Olympics to Hong Kong, including public broadcaster RTHK as well as HOY TV, PCCW and TVB.
- India
Viacom18 has the rights to Paris 2024 in India. That's great news because it means that people in India can watch Olympics 2024 for free on JioCinema on their mobile phones.
There will be 18 simultaneous feeds to choose from which will mean very comprehensive Olympics 2024 live stream coverage.
Viacom also has the TV rights across subcontinental India with Olympics TV coverage and streams in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
- Indonesia
Indonesia's Emtek media company has the broadcast rights for the 2024 Olympic Games.
- Japan
National broadcaster NHK has the rights to show Olympics 2024 live streams in Japan.
- Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan's public broadcasting channel KTRK will show free-to-air coverage of the Paris Olympic Games.
- Macau
Public broadcaster TDM has the rights to show the Paris Olympic Games on TV in Macau.
- Mongolia
Central TV will show the coverage of the Paris Olympics on TV in Mongolia.
- Pakistan
The ARY digital network will show Olympics 2024 live streams across its channels in Pakistan.
- Philippines
Viewers in the Philippines have plenty of options for watching 2024 Olympics Games with Cignal TV, PLDT, Smart ad TV5 all airing coverage from Paris.
- Singapore
State-owned Mediacorp network has the TV rights to the 2024 Olympics in Singapore.
- South Korea
South Korean national broadcaster KBS will show free coverage of the 2024 Olympics. You can also watch the Paris Games on MBC and SBS.
- Thailand
Viewers in Thailand have a number of options for watching the 2024 Olympics Games live streams and on TV with events aired across AIS, TrueVisions, T Sports 7, MCOT, 7HD and PPTV.
Oceania
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- Australia
Nine Network will have comprehensive coverage of the Games from Paris. Viewers can watch Olympics 2024 live streams free on 9Now.
Paid subscription service, Stan will also cover all 329 events, ad-free, live and on-demand and in 4K resolution too.
- New Zealand & Pacific Islands
Sky Sport is the 2024 Olympic Games TV rights holder in New Zealand and across the Pacific Islands, including: Cook Islands, Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
Middle East
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BeIN Sports MENA is the primary Olympics 2024 broadcaster across the Middle East.
You can watch the Paris Olympics 2024 live streams with a subscription to BeIn Sports in the following Middle East countries:
Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
- Israel
Sports Channel / Sport 5 will host coverage of the 2024 Olympic Games in Israel.
Can I watch 2024 Olympic opening ceremony for free?
Check your local broadcaster above but people in the UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland and many other nations listed have free Olympics 2024 coverage as well as subscription broadcasters.
Those in Australia and Canada can watch almost every session of every Olympics 2024 event for free on 9Now and CBC. That will include opening ceremony free live streams.
Remember that, if you're traveling away from home, you can use a VPN to watch the 2024 Olympics free from abroad on your usual streaming service.
When is the opening ceremony at the 2024 Olympics?
The 2024 Olympic opening ceremony in Paris took place on Friday, July 26 from 1.30pm ET / 6.30pm PT but you can still watch a replay on-demand on most of the streaming services above.
Can I watch 2024 Olympic opening ceremony on my mobile?
Of course, most broadcasters have streaming services that you can access through mobile apps or via your phone's browser.
You can also stay up-to-date with all 2024 Olympic Games events on the official social media channels on X/Twitter (@Olympics), Instagram (@Olympics), TikTok (@Olympics) and YouTube (@Olympics).
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