Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Day 8 on BBC & Eurosport – TV Guide

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games reaches its middle weekend of competition with the usual round-the-clock coverage of the best of the day eight action 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 26 Olympic sporting disciplines are in action on Saturday and another 21 gold medals set to be won. Here is a summary of the best action to look out for:

ATHLETICS: Dina Asher-Smith is the fastest British woman in recorded history and was part of the 4x100m relay team that won bronze in Rio 2016.

Today, she will be hoping to line up in the women’s 100m final at 1.50pm, an event in which no British athlete has won a medal in for 61 years. Asher-Smith won silver in this race at the 2019 World Championships, behind Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica.

Another highlight of the evening session, just before the women’s 100m final, is the 4x400m mixed relay, which is a new event for these Games, featuring two male and two female runners on the same team.

TRIATHLON: Kicking the action off on day eight is another new event introduced for the Tokyo Games – the triathlon mixed relay. Two-time Olympic medallist Jonny Brownlee leads the GB team, which also includes Alex Yee and Georgia Taylor-Brown, who won silvers in their individual events earlier in the week.

SWIMMING: Four finals take place on the penultimate day of action in the pool at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, including the mixed 4x100m medley relay, while American superstars Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky are in action in the men’s 100m butterfly and women’s 800m freestyle finals respectively.

SAILING: The first sailing medals of the Games will be claimed on Saturday in the men’s and women’s RS:X windsurfing competitions. Britain’s Emma Wilson is already guaranteed a bronze medal in her event, while Tom Squires races for GB in the men’s event.

SHOOTING: Britain’s Seonaid McIntosh is back in action today in the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions competition, a discipline, where the competitors shoot while kneeling, lying down and standing, that McIntosh has won major global titles. Also today, Great Britain feature in the trap mixed team event, with Tokyo bronze medallist Matthew Coward Holley and Kirsty Hegarty competing.

TENNIS: The tennis competition is nearing its climax and today today sees medal matches across the board, the highlight of which being the women’s singles final between Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic and Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic.

RUGBY SEVENS: Great Britain, who missed out on bronze in Rio five years ago, face France in the semi-finals of the women’s competition, on the final day of rugby sevens at Tokyo Stadium. The other semi-final sees New Zealand take on Fiji, then the medal matches take place from 9.30am.

Scroll down for a full overview of BBC Sport and Eurosport’s TV coverage on day eight 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

23:05 (Fri)

LIVE TRIATHLON, ATHLETICS, SWIMMING, RUGBY 7s
Presenter: JJ Chalmers

A busy Saturday of action gets underway in Japan’s capital, beginning with a new triathlon team contest.

Two-time Olympic medallist Jonny Brownlee leads the GB quartet going for glory in the Far East, along with Alex Yee and Georgia Taylor-Brown, who won silvers in their individual events earlier in the Games, and Jessica Learmonth.

Elsewhere at the Olympic Stadium, one of track and field’s biggest stars, Mondo Duplantis, begins his campaign in pole vault qualifying.

In the swimming pool there are four gold medals to be decided, including the 4x100m mixed medley relay final in which Britain’s won bronze in Brazil.

Plus, the rugby sevens competition reaches its climax today with the women’s semi-finals and final taking place today. Great Britain face France in the last four.

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06:00-09:00

LIVE SAILING, SHOOTING, DIVING, TENNIS
Presenters: Dan Walker & Sam Quek

The action over breakfast includes sailing coverage from Enoshima with the women’s windsurfer medal race, featuring Great Britain’s Emma Wilson, who is already guaranteed at least a bronze medal.

Elsewhere, there are also medals on offer in shooting and tennis, plus the semi-finals of diving’s women’s 3m competition.

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

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09:00-12:40

LIVE RUGBY 7s, ATHLETICS, TENNIS
Presenters: Hazel Irvine & Gabby Logan

Live coverage from Tokyo continues as Great Britain’s women go for glory in the women’s rugby sevens medal matches in the Japanese capital.

The GB women finished in the worst position of all in Rio – just outside the medals in fourth place. They’ll look to go one better and climb the podium this time.

The Olympic Stadium once more playing host to the world’s best track and field athletes on day two of competition – including the fastest men in the world in the 100m heats.

There’s also updates from the women’s singles gold medal match in the tennis, between Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic and Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic.

NOTE: There is a five-minute BBC News update scheduled at 12.40pm.

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12:45-15:00

LIVE ATHLETICS
Presenters: Hazel Irvine & Gabby Logan

Can Dina Asher-Smith dash to the first half of a Tokyo sprint double?

Asher-Smith took silver in the 100m at the 2019 World Championships before going one better in the 200m and claiming global gold.

Nine years after she was a kit carrier at the London 2012 Olympics, can one of Team GB’s biggest stars deliver on her massive potential in East Asia?

Two-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will be the woman to beat – the Jamaican has been in impressive form this season, having claimed the world title ahead of Asher-Smith in 2019.

A busy day at the Olympic Stadium will also see the first ever Olympic champions crowned in a brand-new event, the mixed 4x400m relay.

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15:00-17:45

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. Jason Mohammad and his team of guests cast their eye over some of the standout moments from day eight in Tokyo.

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19:00-20:30

TODAY AT THE GAMES
Presenters: Clare Balding & Alex Scott

The fastest woman on the planet is crowned today in Tokyo. Can Team GB’s sprinting superstar Dina Asher-Smith deliver the goods? Clare Balding and Alex Scott bring you the answer to that question and so much more exciting action.

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20:30-21:40

OLYMPICS EXTRA
Presenters: Jeanette Kwakye & Nihal Arthanayake

Join Jeanette Kwakye and Nihal Arthanayake as they find out how the GB team got on in the inaugural Olympic triathlon mixed team relay in Tokyo.

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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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