Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Day 10 on BBC & Eurosport – TV Guide

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The second week of Tokyo 2020 gets underway and BBC Sport and Eurosport will have extensive round-the-clock coverage of day 10 from the Olympic Games across its platforms.

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 21 Olympic sporting disciplines are in action on Monday and 22 gold medals are set to be won. Here is a summary of the best action to look out for:

TRACK CYCLING: It’s the opening day of action inside the Izu Velodrome, featuring qualifying in the men’s and women’s team pursuits and team sprint competitions.

There’s no British representation in the latter, where Germany and Australia are among the favourites, but both GB pursuit teams will be in action.

ATHLETICS: The headline event of the day on the track is the women’s 5,000m. Sadly, it won’t feature Britain’s Eilish McColgan, who recently broke Paula Radcliffe’s British record, as she failed to progress through her semi-final. Kenya’s Hellen Obiri is one of the favourites, having won the past two world titles but she has never the Olympic title.

Other finals today include the men’s long jump, women’s 100m hurdles, women’s discus and men’s 3,000m steeplechase, while the heats of the women’s 1500m also take place, featuring GB’s Laura Muir.

EQUESTRIAN: The three-day eventing competition reaches its climax with the team and individual gold medals to be won today.

Britain are current holders of the team world title, although only Tom McEwen from that success is heading to Tokyo He will be joined in the team event by Oliver Townend and Laura Collett.

GYMNASTICS: Two showpiece apparatus finals take place today – the men’s rings is one of the defining images of Olympic strength as gymnasts perform manoeuvres while suspending themselves from a set of rings.

The women’s floor competition also takes place, featuring GB’s Jessica Gadirova, who enters Tokyo 2020 as the new European champion. The destination of the medals is likely to be wide open following the withdrawal of American superstar Simone Biles.

SAILING: Today’s medal races – the women’s 49er FX and men’s 49er – feature GB’s Saskia Tidey and Charlotte Dobson, and Stuart Bithell and Dylan Fletcher respectively. Bithell and Fletcher are world champions in this class from 2017.

HOCKEY: The women’s quarter-finals take place today at the Oi Hockey Stadium. Defending Olympic champions Great Britain face Spain as the vie for a spot in the last four.

WEIGHTLIFTING: In women’s +87kg category, Emily Campbell, who won the European title only four months ago, represents Great Britain.

Scroll down for a full overview of BBC Sport and Eurosport’s TV coverage on day 10 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

00:10-06:00

LIVE ATHLETICS
Presenter: JJ Chalmers

Athletics dominates the early schedule on day 10, including the opening round of the women’s 200m alongside the finals of the women’s 100m hurdles and men’s long jump, while Great Britain’s Laura Muir and Jemma Reekie will be seeking safe passage as they begin their 1500m campaigns.

There could be British interest too in the women’s 100m hurdles final, with sisters Cindy Simber and Tiffany Porter fourth and seventh respectively at the previous Olympics and among the fastest in the world this year. But the athlete to catch is Puerto Rican Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, who moved to equal seventh on the all-time list early this year.

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06:00-09:00

LIVE TRACK CYCLING, SAILING
Presenters: Dan Walker & Sam Quek

British athletes seek to rule the waves in sailing and put the brakes on their rivals in the cycling velodrome, as the action continues on day 10 in Tokyo.

Sailing medal races are taking place in the men’s 49er and women’s 49erFX events, with both British crews coming into the Olympics with realistic prospects of a podium finish. Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell are former world champions, although it will be a huge upset if anyone beats New Zealand’s reigning Olympic gold medallists Blair Tuke and Peter Burling. On the women’s side, Charlotte Dobson and Saskia Tidey have performed consistently in recent years, culminating in a world silver medal in 2020.

At the velodrome against a backdrop of Mount Fuji, Britain’s cyclists begin their defence of the men’s and women’s team pursuit titles. The women’s team sprint also takes place, with Australia the favourites and Great Britain unlikely to be in medal contention.

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

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

LIVE GYMNASTICS, EQUESTRIAN, ATHLETICS
Presenters: Hazel Irvine & Gabby Logan

More medals are to be decided in gymnastics and athletics, while the three-day eventing competition heads towards its climax.

Following the withdrawal of American Simone Biles, thought by many to be the greatest gymnast of all time, the women’s floor exercise competition will now be wide open. It will feature Britain’s European champion Jessica Gadirova, as well as her sister Jennifer. There are also apparatus gold medals to be won in the men’s vault and rings.

At the Olympic Stadium, pole vaulter Holly Bradshaw will vying for a place in the final, while the semi-finals of the women’s 200m and men’s 400m also take place.

Elsewhere, it’s the women’s football semi-finals, and the showjumping gets underway to determine the medallists in the team eventing competition.

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

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12:45-15:00

LIVE ATHLETICS, EQUESTRIAN, HOCKEY
Presenters: Hazel Irvine & Gabby Logan

Two Olympic titles are decided on the athletics track, with several British women hoping to be in 5,000m contention and Kenya’s Conseslus Kipruto defending his steeplechase crown.

Laura Muir, Laura Weightman and Eilish McColgan have all registered global top 10 finishes since the previous Olympics, but the athlete to beat – if she opts to compete over the distance – may well be current world 1,500m and 10,000m champion Sifan Hassan.

Elsewhere, the finale of the team and individual eventing competitions – the showjumping – takes place, while in women’s hockey quarter-finals, Great Britain face Spain.

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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. Catch up with some of the leading action that took place on day 10 in Tokyo, with more champions crowned in sports such as athletics, track cycling, gymnastics and equestrian.

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19:30-21:05

TODAY AT THE GAMES
Presenters: Clare Balding & Alex Scott

Clare Balding and Alex Scott introduce the stories that made the headlines on a day when 22 Olympic titles were decided across nine sports.

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21:05-22:00

OLYMPICS EXTRA
Presenter: Nihal Arthanayake

On the day of the women’s football semi-finals, Nihal Arthanayake sees how the teams are shaping up. Are world champions USA odds-on to reclaim the Olympic title?

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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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