How To Watch The Olympics Opening Ceremony Online Broadcast date: Friday, July 26 (US, CA, UK) | Saturday, July 27 (AU) Start time: 1:30pm ET / 10:30am PT / 6:30pm BST / 3:30am AEST (Saturday) Channel: NBC (US) | CBC (CA) | BBC One (UK) | Channel 9 (AU) US stream: Peacock TV FREE International streams: 9Now (AU) BBC iPlayer (UK) | CBC Gem (CA) Watch anywhere: Stream with NordVPN Watch The Olympics Opening Ceremony: Preview Thousands of athletes and spectators are about to converge on Paris for an Olympics Opening Ceremony like no other. Kicking off 16 days of Games, the City of Lights will be transformed into one giant Cirque du Soleil as the River Seine becomes the Olympians' parade route. It promises to be a jubilant, jaw-dropping spectacle.
Read our guide below for how to watch the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony online from anywhere – and 100% free. Just three years ago, Tokyo’s Opening Ceremony was unfolding in a National Stadium left half-empty by Covid and in an atmosphere one commentator described as “funereal.” Luckily, that global tempête de merde has subsided.
Viewers worldwide can look forward to an Opening Ceremony that’s not just a return to form, but offers a radical break from tradition. For the first time in the Summer Games’ history, the inaugural event will occur outside the confines of a stadium. Paris will become one unbounded Olympic venue as the River Seine is transformed into a 4-mile-long parade route conveying roughly 100 boats and 10,0.