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Viewers slam 'mistake' in BBC's coverage of 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony

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Published 12:45 27 Jul 2024 GMT+1

Viewers slam 'mistake' in BBC's coverage of 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony

People on social media made their feelings known about the BBC coverage.

Nasir Jabbar

Nasir Jabbar

People on social media hit out at BBC's coverage of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.

The 2024 Summer Games is officially under way following a spectacular ceremony featuring the likes of football legend Zinedine Zidane and musicians Lady Gaga and Celine Dion, who sang from the Eiffel Tower.

A global audience of more than one billion people was expected to watch the opening ceremony from Paris.

But viewers in the UK weren't pleased with the BBC coverage.

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Clare Balding kicked off BBC's broadcast of the opening ceremony as she was joined in the studio by Michael Johnson, Rebecca Adlington and Sir Chris Hoy.

Despite the star-studded panel, fans tuning in were left disappointed by the lack of coverage of the opening ceremony.

They felt that there was too much chat amongst the Olympics legends and not enough action from the French capital.

Image: BBC
Image: BBC

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One X user wrote: "So this BBC build up to the opening Ceremony is basically just talking about all the negative stuff? Talk about killing the party atmosphere."

A second tweeted: "Didn’t realise the opening ceremony was going to be a chat show."

A third added: "I see we're going heavy on the studio chit chat already."

A fourth said: "Taking a comfort break Too much chat."

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Another fumed: "It's so long since I've watched anything live on the BBC, I'd forgotten how every show requires NINETY DIFFERENT presenters who waffle on and on and on and on before after and during everything."

The BBC won't be able to show everything at this summer's Olympics.

In 2015, Warner Brothers Discovery (WBC) bought the European TV rights of the Olympics for a reported €1.3 billion.

WBC can show as much of the Paris games as they like.

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The BBC will have a network TV channel and a second broadcast stream throughout the Olympics.

Featured Image Credit: BBC

Topics: Olympics, Athletics

Nasir Jabbar
Nasir Jabbar

Nasir Jabbar is a journalist at SPORTbible. He graduated from Bath Spa University with a BA in Media Communications. He's a combat sport aficionado and has contributed to MMA websites AddictedMMA and CagePotato. Nasir has covered some of the biggest fights, while interviewing the likes of Conor McGregor, Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and Darren Till. He's also an avid Bristol City fan.

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