Olympics 2024 decathlon on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
Your guide to the decathlon at the Olympic Games 2024, including TV coverage and schedule.
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- Michael Potts
Published: Thursday, 1 August 2024 at 4:00 pm
Top athletes are usually required to master one sport, one discipline, one distance in their bid for Olympic glory. Decathletes must train for 10.
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The decathlon is a comprehensive tasting menu of all that track and field have to offer.
Decathletes must be competent at sprints, hurdles, longer distance runs as well as using their upper body in a series of throws and a pole vault for good measure.
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Damian Warner of Canada clinched gold in Tokyo 2020, with an Olympic record to boot, comfortably clear of Kevin Mayer and Ashley Moloney.
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When is the decathlon at the Olympics 2024?
The decathlon at the Olympics begins on Friday 2nd August and runs until Saturday 3rd August.
Team GB decathlon at the Olympics 2024
Unfortunately, there will be no men from Team GB involved in the decathlon at the Olympic Games in 2024 – unless Daley Thompson wants to dig out his old kit!
Olympics 2024 decathlon on TV
You can tune in to watch every single minute of every event live on discovery+ throughout the Olympic Games 2024 in the UK.
All of this summer's Olympic action will be broadcast across the discovery+ online streaming platform, totalling around 3,800 hours over the course of the Games, while the Eurosport channels will host wall-to-wall coverage each day.
Fans will be spoiled for choice with more than 55 live feeds constantly rolling to cover every single event.
BBC will boast 250 hours of live coverage throughout the Games. Check out what they will show on their limited live feeds each day with our downloadable Olympics TV Guide or our online Olympics on Today Guide.
Olympics 2024 decathlon schedule
All UK time. Subject to change.
Friday 2nd August
- 9:05am – 100m
- 9:55am – Long Jump
- 11:15am – Shot Put
- 5:00pm – High Jump
- 7:50pm – 400m
Saturday 3rd August
- 9:05am – 110m Hurdles
- 9:55am / 11:05am – Discus Throw Group A / B
- 12:40pm – Pole Vault
- 6:10pm / 7:10pm – Javelin Throw Group A / B
- 8:45pm – 1500m
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Michael PottsSport Editor
Michael Potts is the Sport Editor for Radio Times, covering all of the biggest sporting events across the globe with previews, features, interviews and more. He has worked for Radio Times since 2019 and previously worked on the sport desk at Express.co.uk after starting his career writing features for What Culture. He achieved a first-class degree in Sports Journalism in 2014.
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