How to Watch the Olympics 2024: Schedule, Channels, and More

(SPOT.ph) With less than a night’s sleep remaining until the Olympics kick off, we’re more excited than before as we cheer on our 22-strong delegates.

The opening ceremony, set for Saturday, July 27 at 1:30 a.m. (Philippine Time), will mark a historic first for the Summer Games as it takes place outside a traditional stadium. This year, athletes will parade along Paris’ iconic River Seine on boats.

Traveling from east to west, 10,500 athletes will be transported on 94 boats along a six-kilometer (approximately 3.7 miles) route, culminating in front of the renowned Trocadéro, directly across from the Eiffel Tower. This location will also host the rest of the Opening Ceremony festivities, including the lighting of the Olympic cauldron.

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How to Watch the Paris Olympics Ceremony Live from the Philippines

Cignal TV and One Sports Digital will broadcast the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, featuring Team Philippines in the Parade of Nations. 

One Sports has announced that the ceremony will be available on its Facebook and YouTube channels, the free-to-air One Sports channel, One Sports+, and Cignal TV Pop-up channels 1 and 2 on cable. It will also be featured on the 2:30 p.m. broadcast on RPTV.

Of course, we have online options too. Pilipinas Live will stream all Filipino athletes' events in HD via its app and website. Note that it's paid, though. Meanwhile, the Smart Livestream App will provide free 24/7 streaming and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store.

Don't miss Tokyo Olympics silver medalists and boxers Nesthy Petecio and Carlo Paalam serving as the flagbearers!

Paris Olympics 2024 Team Philippines' Schedule

Here's an overview of Team Philippines' schedule, including post-qualifying dates, organized by sport and the competing athlete/s.

ATHLETICS

EJ Obiena (pole vault)

• August 3, Saturday – men’s qualification
• August 6, Tuesday – men’s final

John Cabang Tolentino (110m hurdles)

• August 4, Sunday – heats round 1
• August 6, Tuesday – repechage round
• August 9, Thursday – semifinal
• August 9, Friday – final

Lauren Hoffman (400m hurdles)

• August 4, Sunday – heats round 1
• August 5, Monday – repechage round
• August 7 Wednesday – semifinals
• August 9 Friday – final

BOXING

Hergie Bacyadan (women’s 75kg)

• July 31, Wednesday – round of 16
• August 4, Sunday – quarterfinals
• August 9, Friday – semifinals
• August 11, Sunday – final

Eumir Marcial (men’s 80kg)

• July 31, Wednesday – round of 16
• August 3, Saturday – quarterfinals
• August 4, Sunday – semifinals
• August 8, Thursday – final

Carlo Paalam (men’s 57kg)

• July 31, Wednesday – round of 16
• August 3, Saturday – quarterfinals
• August 9, Friday – semifinals
• August 11, Sunday – final

Nesthy Petecio (women’s 57kg)

• July 30, Tuesday – round of 32
• August 3, Saturday – round of 16
• August 4, Sunday – quarterfinals
• August 8, Thursday – semifinals
• August 11, Saturday – final

Aira Villegas (women’s 50kg)

• July 29 Monday – round of 32
• August 2, Friday – round of 16
• August 4, Sunday – quarterfinals
• August 7, Wednesday – semifinals
• August 10, Saturday – final

FENCING

Samantha Catantan (women’s foil)

• July 28, Sunday – table of 64, table of 32, table of 16, quarterfinals
• July 29, Monday – semifinals, battle for bronze, final

GYMNASTICS

Carlos Yulo (men’s)

• July 27, Saturday – men’s qualification subdivision 2
• July 31, Wednesday – men’s all-around final
• August 3, Saturday – men’s floor exercise, pommel horse final
• August 4, Sunday – men’s rings, vault final
• August 5, Monday – men’sparallel bars, horizontal bar final

Aleah Finnegan, Emma Malabuyo, Levi Jung-Ruivivar (women’s)

• July 28, Sunday – women’s qualification subdivision 3
• August 2, Friday – women’s all-around final
• August 3, Saturday – women’s vault, final
• August 4, Sunday – women’s uneven bars final
• August 5, Monday – women’s balance beam, floor exercise final

GOLF

Dottie Ardina, Bianca Pagdanganan

• August 7, Wednesday – round 1
• August 8, Thursday – round 2
• August 9, Friday – round 3
• August 10, Saturday – round 4 – medal

JUDO

Kiyomi Watanabe (women’s -63kg)

• July 30, Tuesday – elimination round of 32, round of 16, quarterfinal, repechage, semifinal, bronze medal match, gold medal match

ROWING

Joanie Delgaco (women’s single sculls)

• July 27, Saturday – heats
• July 28, Sunday – repechage

SWIMMING

Kayla Sanchez (womens’ 100m freestyle)

• July 30, Tuesday – heats
• July 31, Wednesday – semifinals
• August 1, Thursday – final

Jarod Hatch (men’s 100m butterfly)

• August 2, Friday – heats
• August 3, Saturday – semifinals
• August 4, Sunday – final

WEIGHTLIFTING

John Ceniza (men’s 61kg)

• August 7, Wednesday – medal round/final

Elreen Ando (women’s 59kg)

• August 8, Thursday- medal round/final

Vanessa Sarno (women’s 71kg)

• August 10, Saturday – medal round/final

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