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RT announces bumper coverage of the 2024 Olympic Games as largest Team Ireland ever heads to Paris

19/07/2024

Coverage of all 17 days across TV, Radio and Online following Team Ireland's record-breaking contingent of 133 athletes

Over 250 hours of live coverage on RT 2 and RT Player with three daily programmes

Brand new daily Olympics Podcast every morning alongside coverage of events across RT Radio 1, RT Raidi na Gaeltachta and 2FM

Breaking news, results and reaction on the RT News app and RT .ie from RT journalists on the ground

Irish sports stars including Sonia O'Sullivan, Gr inne Murphy, Rob Heffernan, Bernard Dunne and Annalise Murphy join RT 's Olympic Team

RT today announced details of its extensive coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

RT will bring the excitement and spirit of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to audiences, ensuring that every moment of Team Ireland's journey is captured and celebrated. Paris 2024 will see the largest ever Irish contingent travel to the Olympics, with 133 athletes competing across a wider array of sports than ever before. Viewers won't miss a minute with RT 's Olympics coverage from the spectacular Olympics Opening Ceremony on July 26 on the banks of the River Seine, to equestrian events at Versailles Palace, boxing from Roland Garros Stadium to Ireland's hockey team competing at the Yves-du-Manoir Stadium where Team Ireland first competed in 1924.

RT will deliver over 250 hours of live action from France across RT 2 and RT Player, with three live daily programmes, live coverage of the main events on RT Radio 1, RT 2FM and RT Raidi na Gaeltachta as well as a brand new RT Olympic Podcast series available each morning with the definitive daily digest of the day's action and upcoming events from RT journalists and special guests.

RT .ie and the RT News app will provide up-to-the-minute action from Paris 2024, with the results and reactions from all the Irish athletes on each day published as they happen via live blogs as well as athlete profiles, exclusive highlights and video interviews, analysis from RT 's team of pundits, and all the breaking news from Paris.

Olympics fans will be able to watch 14 hours a day of coverage across three daily TV programmes on RT 2 and RT Player, featuring a stellar array of expertise on Olympic sports including athletics, swimming, boxing, rowing, gymnastics, badminton, and rugby sevens.

Evanne N Chuilinn presents Paris Olympics 2024: AM as the action begins in Paris each morning. Peter Collins will be at the helm for Paris Olympics 2024: Today in the afternoons, and Paris Olympics: 2024 Tonight will be presented by Darragh Maloney and Joanne Cantwell. RT 's line-up of studio experts include Andrew Bree and Gr inne Murphy (Swimming), Derval O'Rourke, Rob Heffernan and Sonia O'Sullivan, (Athletics) Bernard Dunne and Kenny Egan (Boxing), Johnny Bell (Hockey), Mair ad Kavanagh (Gymnastics), Scott Evans (Badminton) and Annalise Murphy (Sailing) amongst a host of others.

Group Head of RT Sport, Declan McBennett, said: Rarely from an Irish perspective have we had such a level of anticipation and expectation heading into an Olympic games. RT Sport will be there for the key events, the reactions and hopefully the medal moments as the best athletes we have across so many disciplines not only take on, but match and better the best in the world.

RT Radio 1 will have live coverage of the major action and updates starting on Morning Ireland and continuing throughout the day from the RT Radio Studio at the Paris Olympic Broadcast Centre. Listeners will miss none of the main events with regular updates on Today with Claire Byrne; News At One; The Ray D'Arcy Show and Drivetime. A special Olympic Nights programme presented by John Creedon will serve a diet of music and action until all the Irish events are completed for the day. At weekends, key events from Paris will be broadcast live, and Saturday Sport and Sunday Sport will have comprehensive coverage along with the usual GAA Championship action and other sports coverage.

RT 2FM will have live action and regular updates from Paris, with Game On wrapping up the day's news, reports and action. 2FM will also be celebrating some of Ireland's greatest Olympic moments in a series of packages presented by Aindri de Paor.

Each weekday morning RT Raidi na Gaeltachta's Sports Editor, Gear id n Nic an Iomaire will take listeners through the day's events on the station's current affairs programme, Adhmhaidin. There will also be live commentary, updates, reports, and interviews throughout the day. At weekends, Raidi na Gaeltachta will provide comprehensive coverage of the games on Sp rt an tSathairn, Sp rt an Tr thn na and Sp rt an Lae.

As well as live coverage, viewers can get their Olympics fix in advance with content currently available including Chapters of Magnificence, an 11-part series featuring interviews with Irish Olympic medallists, which continues this Sunday 21 July at 7.30pm on RT Radio 1 with Fintan McCarthy and on RT Radio Player. From July 20, all the individual stories of all athletes featured in Path to Paris will drop on RT Player. The series documents the journey of Ireland's top medal prospects, including sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke, boxing champion Kellie Harrington and gymnast Rhys McClenaghan ahead of the Olympics and Paralympics.

The RT social accounts will have exclusive content and video from Paris.
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