By Jim Gilles & Valerie Milano
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 7/23/21 – The 2021 Olympic Games began today Friday, July 23 with the Olympic opening ceremony. It occurred
at 7 a.m. ET today while it occurred at 8 p.m. local time in Tokyo. For those that didn’t want to get up early, the event will be re-broadcast tonight, Friday, in prime-time starting at 7:30 p.m. ET, which is 4:30 p.m. PT. That will run until midnight. NBC will carry live coverage of the opening ceremony and all other Olympic events through their family of networks. The main network, NBC, will host the opening ceremonies. It will also be live-streamed on Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, fuboTV. Peacock is NBC’s free streaming platform and will be carrying coverage of the opening ceremonies. NBCOlympics.com will be as well. FuboTV, which offers a seven-day free trail, is also a streaming option for these events. The Closing Ceremony on Sunday, August 8, will be broadcast on NBC as well.
Events will be broadcast on NBC, USA, NBCSN, CNBC, Olympic Channel, Golf Channel and NBC’s streaming platform, Peacock. Soccer and softball have already started ahead of Olympic opening ceremony on Friday. Here’s a full breakdown of every live event the NBC family of networks will be showing during the Olympics. There will be plenty of other tape-delayed coverage throughout the event because of the 13-hour time difference between Tokyo and the Eastern time zone and a 16-hour time difference between Tokyo and Pacific Time here in California.
As it did for the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, NBC will broadcast its primetime show live across all time zones. Tokyo is 16 hours ahead of the West Coast. NBC’s evening primetime show will air daily on NBC followed by Prime West and Prime Plus. The primetime show will feature the Games’ most popular sports, including swimming, gymnastics, track and field and beach volleyball.
Just to get you into the weekend, here’s the Olympic events you can watch live:
Saturday, July 24
| Sport | Event | Time (PT) | Channel |
| Tennis | Men’s/Women’s first-round singles, doubles | 11 pm – 4 am | Olympic Channel |
| Women’s Water Polo | U.S. vs. Japan | 11 pm – 4:30 am | NBCSN |
| Softball | U.S. vs. Mexico | 11 pm – 4:30 am | NBCSN |
| Archery | Mixed Team Final | 11 pm – 4:30 am | NBCSN |
| Women’s Soccer | Sweden vs. Australia | 11 pm – 4:30 am | NBCSN |
| Cycling | Men’s Road Race | 11 pm – 6:50 am | USA |
| Beach Volleyball | Women’s Qualifying Round | 11 pm – 6:50 am | USA |
| Swimming | Qualifying Heats | 11 pm – 6:50 am | USA |
| Beach Volleyball | Men’s Qualifying Round | 11 pm – 6:50 am | USA |
| Basketball | Men’s 3×3 | 11 pm – 9:50 am | USA |
| Men’s Gymnastics | Qualifying | 3 am – 8 am | Peacock |
| Men’s Volleyball | U.S. vs. France | 3 am – 8 am | Peacock |
| Women’s Soccer | U.S. vs. New Zealand | 4:30 am – 6:30 am | NBCSN |
| Men’s Volleyball | U.S. vs. France | 6 am – 7:45 am | NBC |
| Beach Volleyball | Women’s Qualifying Round | 5 pm – 8:30 pm | NBC |
| Swimming | Finals | 5 pm – 8:30 pm | NBC |
| Skateboarding | Men’s Street Qualifying | 5 pm – 11 pm | USA |
| Basketball | Men’s 3×3 | 5 pm – 11 pm | USA |
| Skateboarding | Men’s Street Final | 5 pm – 11 pm | USA |
| Cycling | Women’s Round Race | 5 pm – 11 pm | USA |
| Softball | U.S. vs. Australia | 5 pm – 10 pm | CNBC |
| Tennis | Men’s/Women’s first-round singles, doubles | 7 pm – 11 pm | Olympic Channel |
| Skateboarding | Men’s Street Qualifying | 8:30 pm – 11:30 pm | NBC |
| Men’s Water Polo | U.S. vs. Japan | 10 pm – 11 pm | CNBC |
Sunday, July 25
| Sport | Event | Time (PT) | Channel |
| Men’s Water Polo | U.S. vs. Japan | 11 pm – 1 am | CNBC |
| Diving | Women’s Synchronized Springboard Final | 11 pm – 1 am | CNBC |
| Archery | Women’s Team Final | 11 pm – 1 am | CNBC |
| Tennis | Men’s/Women’s first-round singles, doubles | 11 pm – 4 am | Olympic Channel |
| Cycling | Women’s Road Race | 11 pm – 5:20 am | USA |
| Women’s 3×3 Basketball | U.S. vs. Romania | 11 pm – 5:20 am | USA |
| Swimming | Qualifying Heats | 11 pm – 5:20 am | USA |
| Men’s Soccer | Brazil vs. Ivory Coast | 1:30 am – 3:30 am | NBCSN |
| Gymnastics | Women’s Qualifying | 3 am – 8 am | Peacock |
| Men’s Basketball | U.S. vs. France | 3 am – 8 am | Peacock |
| Men’s Soccer | Australia vs. Spain | 3:30 am – 5:30 am | NBCSN |
| Swimming | Qualifying Heats | 5 am – 9:15 pm | NBC |
| Women’s 3×3 Basketball | U.S. vs. Taiwan | 5 am – 9:15 pm | NBC |
| Beach Volleyball | Men’s Qualifying Round | 8 a.m. – 12:15 pm | NBC |
| Men’s Soccer | Japan vs. Mexico | 5:30 am – 9:30 am | NBCSN |
| Triathlon | Men’s Final | 4 pm – 6:30 pm | USA |
| Beach Volleyball | Women’s Qualifying Round | 2:30 pm – 6 pm | USA |
| Triathlon | Men’s Final | 4 pm – 6:30 pm | NBC |
| Skateboarding | Women’s Street Final | 5 pm – 11 pm | CNBC |
| Rugby | Men’s Qualifying Round | 5 pm – 11 pm | CNBC |
| Skateboarding | Women’s Street Final | 5 pm – 11 pm. | CNBC |
| Men’s Basketball | Argentina vs. Slovenia | 5 pm – 11 pm | CNBC |
| Softball | U.S. vs. Japan | 6 pm – 8 pm | USA |
| Swimming | Finals | 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm | NBC |
| Tennis | Men’s/Women’s second-round singles, doubles | 11 pm – 4 am | Olympic Channel |
| Basketball | 3×3 | 8 pm – 11 pm | USA |
| Beach Volleyball | Women’s Qualifying Round | 8 pm – 11 pm | USA |
| Women’s Water Polo | U.S. vs. China | 8 pm – 11 pm | USA |
| Skateboarding | Women’s Street Final | 8:30 pm – 11pm | NBC |
