Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Day 5 on BBC & Eurosport – TV Guide

BBC Sport and Eurosport will have comprehensive round-the-clock coverage of the fifth day of action at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Team GB claimed six medals day four, including two silvers and three bronzes, to take their tally to 13 overall and put them fifth in the medal table, making this the most successful start for Great Britain in any Olympics.

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 Wednesday, with 23 gold medals set to be won. Here is a summary of the best action to look out for:

ROWING: The history of the Great Britain men’s four is a rich one, with the likes of Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent among those who have helped steer the boat to gold at the last five games.

Now a quartet of Olympic debutants in the shape of Ollie Cook, Matt Rossiter, Rory Gibbs and Sholto Carnegie hope to add their names to the list of British Olympic men’s four champions.

Three other British crews will also race in finals today, while Helen Glover and Polly Swann go in the semi-finals of the women’s pairs.

RUGBY SEVENS: The men’s competition reaches its climax at Tokyo Stadium. 2016 silver medallists Great Britain have made it again to the semi-finals, where they face New Zealand. The gold medal match takes place at 10am.

SWIMMING: After Tom Dean and Duncan Scott won a sensational gold and silver respectively in the 200m freestyle final on day four, the pair are back for the 4x200m freestyle relay, while Abbie Wood and Alicia Wilson hope to be in medal contention in the 2000m medley final.

CYCLING ROAD: The road cycling programme concludes at Fuji Speedway with the men’s and women’s individual time trials, where Anna Shackley rides for Team GB in the women’s event, while Geraint Thomas represents Britain’s best chance of a medal in the men’s event, although that will depend on how he has recovered his crash in the road race at the weekend.

DIVING: Five years ago in Rio, Jack Laugher and Chris Mears sensationally won gold in men’s 3m synchro. Now, Laugher returns to try and retain his title, with new diving partner Dan Goodfellow.

EQUESTRIAN: Charlotte Dujardin goes for more Olympic glory, aboard her new horse Gio, in the individual freestyle dressage competition.

Having won team bronze with Charlotte Fry and Carl Hester on day four, Dujardin will be aiming to become the first British woman to win gold medals at three different Olympics.

TENNIS: British interest in the tennis competition continues, with Andy Murray and Joe Salisbury in the quarter-finals of the men’s doubles quarter-finals, where they face Croatia’s Marin Cilic and Ivan Dodig, while Liam Broady takes on France’s Jeremy Chardy in the third round of the singles tournament.

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

00:05-06:00

LIVE ROWING, SWIMMING, CYCLING ROAD
Presenter: JJ Chalmers

Great Britain’s men’s four aim to win a sixth consecutive rowing gold as the rowing finals get underway, while British swimmers look to get in among the medals on day five in Tokyo.

In the pool, Britain have high hopes of a medal in the men’s 4 x 200m freestyle, where they plan to upset the USA’s hopes of winning a fifth gold in a row. And USA superstar Katie Ledecky aims to become the inaugural Olympic women’s 1500m champion.

Also, the road cycling programme concludes at Fuji International Speedway with the women’s and men’s individual time trials.

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06:00-09:00

LIVE DIVING, CYCLING ROAD, CANOE SLALOM
Presenters: Dan Walker & Sam Quek

Britain’s Jack Laugher and Dan Goodfellow dive for gold in the men’s 3m synchro on day four in Tokyo. Laugher will be defending the title he won with Chris Mears in Rio, and he and Goodfellow took silver at the last World Championships so will be hoping to go one better in Japan.

Plus coverage of the conclusion of the men’s road time trial, while Britain’s Mallory Franklin begins her medal quest in the heats of the women’s C1 canoe slalom.

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 EQUESTRIAN, RUGBY 7s, GYMNASTICS
Presenters: Hazel Irvine

Charlotte Dujardin’s bid for an Olympic equestrian hat-trick is the highlight as the action continues on day five in Tokyo.

Dujardin has won the last two individual dressage gold medals at London 2012 and Rio 2016. Can ‘The Girl on the Dancing Horse’ do it again in Tokyo?

Also hoping for Olympic gold on Wednesday are the men’s rugby sevens team. Team GB won silver in Rio five years ago and will want to go one better.

Elsewhere, in artistic gymnastics, it’s the men’s all-around final, featuring Great Britain’s Joe Fraser and James Hall.

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

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12:45-15:00

LIVE EQUESTRIAN, GYMNASTICS, 3×3 BASKETBALL
Presenters: Hazel Irvine

Britain’s multiple Olympic dressage champion Charlotte Dujardin continues to go after yet more Games glory in Tokyo as the action on day five reaches its climax.

Alongside dressage star Dujardin, the British men’s artistic gymnasts are in action in the all-around final as they bid to repeat their Rio heroics which saw them win six medals.

This afternoon’s coverage also features one of the brand new events for Tokyo with the gold-medal match in the men’s and women’s 3×3 basketball.

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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, including the overnight rowing, swimming and cycling.

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19:30-21:00

TODAY AT THE GAMES
Presenters: Clare Balding & Alex Scott

Clare Balding and Alex Scott present highlights of a thrilling day’s action from Tokyo 2020 in which Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin went in search of yet another games gold.

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21:00-22:00

OLYMPICS EXTRA
Presenter: Jeanette Kwakye

Jeanette Kwakye and Nihal Arthanayake cast their eye over the best of the action from another hectic day at Tokyo 2020, which featured Olympic history in the making.

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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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