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