Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Day 7 on BBC & Eurosport – TV Guide

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games reaches its seventh day of competition on Friday and there will be round-the-clock coverage across BBC Sport and Eurosport.

SOTB’s Olympics TV guides will take you through all the key action and list the must-see moments every day throughout the Games.

A total of 27 Olympic sporting disciplines are in action on Friday, with 21 gold medals set to be won. Here is a summary of the best action to look out for:

ATHLETICS: The track and field action in the Olympic Stadium gets underway, including the early rounds of the women’s 100m, where World Championship silver medallist Dina Asher-Smith will be lining up in the start of her quest for Olympic glory. No British woman has won Olympic gold in the either the 100m or 200m, while the last medal in either of those blue-ribbon sprint events came 61 years ago.

Later in the day, the first track final takes place with the men’s 10,000m final, where the biggest absentee is the Olympic champion from London and Rio – Mo Farah – after he failed to make the selection time. Mark Scott and Sam Atkin will instead run for Team GB.

ROWING: It’s the final day of the rowing regatta and it’s the last chance for Great Britain to win gold on the water. The men’s eight will be attempting to repeat their gold medal success in Rio, but it will a tough ask against strong German and Australian opposition, while Vicky Thornley goes in the women’s single sculls.

SWIMMING: There are four more swimming gold medals to be won at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, including the men’s 200m individual medley final, featuring Duncan Scott, who bids to win his third of a possible four medals having already won gold and silver so far. The host nation will also have a strong interest in the race courtesy of reigning world champion Daiya Seto.

Elsewhere, Luke Greenbank, who won bronze at the 2019 world championships, goes in the men’s 200m backstroke final, Molly Renshaw and Abbie Wood are in the women’s 200m breaststroke final, while Anna Hopkin competes in the women’s 100m freestyle.

BMX RACING: Great Britain’s Kye Whyte and Bethany Shriever will be attempting the reach the finals of their respective events, as the medals are won in this fast, thrilling and unpredictable discipline.

TRAMPOLINING: After the tension and drama of the artistic gymnastics programme, the focus now switches on the trampolining discipline, which sprang a surprise silver medal for Britain’s Bryony Page five years ago in Rio. She and compatriot Laura Gallagher will be aiming to reach the final at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre.

CANOE SLALOM: The final day of canoe slalom events sees the men’s kayak semi-finals and final take place at the Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre. Britain’s Joe Clarke won gold in this event in Rio, but wasn’t selected to defend his title in Tokyo, so GB’s hopes this time rest on Bradley Forbes-Cryans.

FOOTBALL: The women’s football competition reaches the quarter-final stage and Great Britain face Australia at the Ibaraki Kashima stadium for a place in the last four.

RUGBY SEVENS: It’s crunch time in the women’s competition as the final group matches take place in the afternoon, followed by the quarter-finals in the evening.

JUDO: After narrowly missing out on the London and Rio Olympics, Sarah Adlington finally makes her debut at the Games in the women’s +78kg category, in the penultimate day of the judo programme.

TENNIS: The first tennis medals will be won on Friday with men’s doubles gold medal match taking place, while the men’s singles and mixed doubles competitions reach their semi-final stage.

Scroll down for a full overview of BBC Sport and Eurosport’s TV coverage on day seven of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

For further details about UK TV coverage of the Olympics and Paralympics, visit SOTB’s dedicated Tokyo 2020 page.

BBC Sport is the home of live free-to-air coverage of all the key medal moments at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

More than 350 hours of coverage will be broadcast across network TV – BBC One and BBC Two – and via one extra live stream available on the Red Button and online via BBC iPlayer.

Eurosport is the only place to watch live coverage of every single televised Olympic event at the Tokyo Games.

The pan-European broadcaster will be running 9 dedicated Olympics TV channels, available on Sky, Virgin and BT TV, while full streaming coverage of every sport, totalling more than 3,000 hours of live action, can be found on Eurosport Player and Discovery+.

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All BBC and Eurosport timings/channels listed in below are all subject to change.

Tokyo is eight hours ahead of the UK when lining up your viewing plans, so the early action on each day’s timetable will be happen overnight and the live sporting schedule is set to run through until around 3pm UK time each day.

With focus on UK medal interest, the potential for disruption due to Covid and the high chances of inclement weather in Tokyo, there may be late changes to the main BBC network TV schedule and Eurosport 1/2 coverage throughout the Games.

Please check your electronic programme guide on the day for up-to-date listings.

WATCH LIVE OR CATCH-UP via BBC iPLAYER

23:50 (Thu)

LIVE ROWING, ATHLETICS, SWIMMING, BMX
Presenter: JJ Chalmers

All eyes will be on rowing and Britain’s attempts to defend their men’s eight title on the final day of competition at Sea Forest Waterway.

The GB rowers won three gold medals at Rio 2016, with the men’s eight among that number, reclaiming the Olympic title for the first time since Sydney 2000.

Elsewhere, in Japan’s capital, the track and field athletes take to the track for the first time with Britain’s gold-medal hopeful Dina Asher-Smith in action in the 100m heats.

Asher-Smith hopes to upgrade her 2019 World Championships silver into gold in Japan as part of a double medal hunt along with the 200m.

In the pool, Britain’s Duncan Scott bids to win his third of a possible four medals at these Games in the men’s 200m individual medley final.

And in BMX racing, the first medals are awarded at the Ariake Urban Sports Park. Kye Whyte and Bethany Shriever go for Great Britain.

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06:00-09:00

LIVE TRAMPOLINING, CANOE SLALOM, BADMINTON
Presenters: Dan Walker & Sam Quek

Highlights of the overnight action from Tokyo, including athletics, swimming and rowing, plus the best of the live coverage.

Great Britain have expectations of success in trampolining, where Bryony Page, an Olympic silver medallist in Rio five years ago, is in action, along with Laura Gallagher.

There’s British interest in this morning’s canoe slalom action, with the semi-finals and final of the men’s kayak, featuring Bradley Forbes-Cryans.

Elsewhere, the first of the badminton medals will be won and it’s all Chinese affair in the mixed doubles gold medal match.

NOTE: Between 6am and 9am during Olympic Breakfast, there will be hourly BBC national and regional news updates.

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09:00-12:00
12:00-12:45

LIVE ATHLETICS, FOOTBALL
Presenters: Hazel Irvine & Gabby Logan

The first medals are handed out at the Olympic Stadium as the athletics programme gets underway on day seven.

The action from Japan features the heats of a brand-new Olympic event, the mixed 4x400m relay in which Great Britain are confident of securing safe passage to the final.

Women’s triple jump and shot put qualifying are also on the programme with the latter likely to feature emerging British shot put star Sophie McKinna.

Commonwealth medallist Laura Weightman takes to the track in the 5000m heats.

Plus, there’s coverage of Great Britain’s quarter-final against Australia in the women’s football.

NOTE: Coverage switches to BBC Two for 45 minutes at 12pm.

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12:45-15:00

LIVE ATHLETICS, TABLE TENNIS, HOCKEY
Presenters: Hazel Irvine & Gabby Logan

Continued live coverage on BBC One as day seven draws to a close in Tokyo, including the conclusion of the evenings session on the first day of athletics.

Since the Rio 2016 games five years ago, the 4×400 mixed team relay has been added to the Olympic programme. The brand new event makes its Olympic debut with the qualifying rounds.

Meanwhile, in the men’s 10,000m, will favourite Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda be able to claim the Olympic title and lower his own world record in the process?

The afternoon’s coverage also features the table tennis men’s singles final as well at the GB men’s hockey team in action in the group stages.

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15:00-18:00

OLYMPICS 2020
Presenter: Jason Mohammad

As the live action draws to a close, there’s another chance to see extended highlights of the best action from around the Games, where a grand total of 21 gold medals were handed out in Japan on day seven.

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19:30-21:05

TODAY AT THE GAMES
Presenters: Clare Balding & Alex Scott

Clare Balding and Alex Scott look back at the day’s action from Tokyo 2020, which featured the men’s 10,000m final.

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21:05-22:00

OLYMPICS EXTRA
Presenters: Jeanette Kwakye & Nihal Arthanayake

Jeanette Kwakye and Nihal Arthanayake take a look back over some of the standout action in Tokyo today, which saw Britain’s Kye Whyte go for glory in the BMX racing finals.

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00:00-15:00

LIVE ADDITIONAL COVERAGE

An extra stream featuring uninterrupted coverage of a selected sport will be available to watch via the Red Button or iPlayer, starting from midnight and running through until at least 3pm.

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WATCH EVERY SPORT LIVE ON EUROSPORT PLAYER

Eurosport and discovery+ is the ‘Streaming Home of the Olympics’ for Tokyo 2020.

The platform will include more than 50 live event feeds, including the main Eurosport 1 and 2 channels. Discovery+ will also stream Eurosport pop-up channels 3 to 9, as well as providing access to all the action on-demand.

If you are looking for the place to find each and every sport live and on-demand for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, Eurosport and discovery+ are the only places to find this level of coverage.

Eurosport 1 will focus on more traditional Olympic sports and prospective Team GB medal events and host a daily highlights programme – Tokyo Today – at 4pm and 9pm. Eurosport 2 coverage will include new Olympic sports including skateboarding, surfing and sport climbing.

Eurosport 3 to 9 will host seven pop-up channels categorized by sport genre in HD on Sky, BT, Virgin Media and Amazon alongside a UHD/HDR channel on Virgin Media and Sky, while Sky Q customers can also access 50+ live event feeds via discovery+ subscription.

TV schedules for Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2 can be found below, while the full Eurosport streaming schedule can be found via the Eurosport Player website.

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