Exclusive Content, Studio and Original Productions

19 days of competitions on Eurosport channels and full live coverage of every moment of the Games only on discovery+: the countdown begins for Paris 2024, where Warner Bros. Discovery will broadcast a total of 3800 hours LIVE thanks to its ott platform. The -100 day milestone kicks off a extraordinary Summer of Sport of 5000 hours live to be experienced on linear channels and all Warner Bros. streaming platforms. Discovery: a French summer from Roland Garros of tennis to the legendary 24 Hours of Le Manspassing through the streets of Tour de France.

WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY PRESENTS THE SUMMER OF SPORT WITH 3800 HOURS OF LIVE OLYMPIC GAMES ON EUROSPORT CHANNELS AND LIVE-STREAMING ON DISCOVERY+.
THE RAPHAEL HOTEL WILL BE THE HEADQUARTERS EUROSPORT HOUSE PARIS 2024WITH ITALIAN PRODUCTION ONSITE AT THE GAMES’ LOCATIONS.
AMONG THE ORIGINAL WBD PRODUCTIONS INAUGURATED AT -100, HALL OF FAME ITALY WITH THE FIRST EPISODES OF 17 APRIL DEDICATED TO TANIA CAGNOTTO AND ROBERTO CAMMARELLE.

To celebrate the 100 days of countdown to the Summer Olympic Games of Paris 2024, Warner Bros Discovery presents its original content towards the sporting event of the year, leveraging the breadth of its television and streaming portfolio to engage with an ever-broader audience. On Wednesday 17 April Eurosport 1 dedicates an evening of Olympic-themed programming with its original content available on-demand on Discovery+:

AT 6.15 PM THE POWER OF THE OLYMPICS . Magazine which will be broadcast weekly from 17 April until the start of the Games with its interviews with some of the announced protagonists of Paris 2024 including life stories, sporting growth and resilient dreams.
AT 6.45 PM THE OLYMPIANS – Original 60-minute documentary produced in collaboration with Bridgestone and dedicated to the athletic preparation of ten Olympians towards the event that is worth a career: among them the French decathlete and world record holder Kevin Mayer, the Spanish canoeist twice Olympic champion Saul Craviotto and the swimmer frog king Adam Peaty.
AT 7.45 PM CHASING GLORY – Co-produced by Red Bull Media, an intimate and revealing 7-episode docu-series about the lives of sports stars such as Karsten Warholm (reigning Olympic 400 meter hurdles champion), Olympic champion in sport climbing Janja Garnbret, breaker Menno van Gorp and the 3-time cycling world champion Peter Sagan.
FROM 9.00 PM HALL OF FAME ITALY – An original Eurosport Italia production in ten episodes (broadcast every Wednesday for five weeks) on the great feats of Italian athletes at the Olympic Games told by the protagonists. Memories, emotions and secrets to relive or discover with Tania Cagnotto, Roberto Cammarelle, Antonio Rossi and Daniele Scarpa, the women’s foil, Stefano Baldini, Italbasket, Settebelllo, Italvolley, Yuri Chechi and Igor Cassina and Pietro Mennea.
Wednesday 17 April at 9pm Tania Cagnotto – Diving was his destiny, but Olympic medals seemed like a mirage. The story of Tania Cagnotto who in Rio 2016, in the last chance of her career, climbed onto the podium twice at Five Circles.
Wednesday 17 April at 9.30pm Roberto Cammarelle – His dream was to become an Olympic champion. From Cinisello Balsamo to the podium for a gold, a silver and a bronze, the story of our super heavyweight champion.
AT 10pm PARIS: THE SPORTS STREETS – Original documentary that traces a century of Olympic sport from the 1924 Paris Games and artistically narrated by the 1998 world football and Euro 2000 champion Thierry Henry, icon of French sport.

Furthermore, Warner Bros. Discovery unveils the first images of its Olympic studio for the -100 in Paris 2024, the Eurosport House located in the prestigious Hotel Raphael overlooking the Eiffel Tower, with its three stand-up stations against the backdrop of the Arc de Triomphe: an evocative headquarters that will welcome some of the competing athletes and many important guests for the entire duration of the Games. Eurosport House will consist of four studios available to production teams from Italy, France, Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom and Sweden.

To bring an ever younger audience closer to the magic of the Olympic Gamesthe collaboration of Warner Bros. Discovery with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been announced for extra content featuring the characters of Looney Tunes. Just starting from April and in view of Paris 2024, Eurosport will broadcast a series of episodes of Sports Made Simplewhich, presented by Bugs Bunny, will help explain the rules of the 4×100 meter athletics relay (released on April 17 on all digital and social platforms), tennis, breaking, volleyball and gymnastics in Bugs’ inimitable style.

Within a guideline always-on for all sports fans who want to immerse themselves in the Olympic Gamesa new website dedicated to Paris 2024 will also be inaugurated on Wednesday 17 April where you can find news, videos, in-depth focuses and calendars. In the Road to Paris 2024 of Eurosport.it and apps, an exclusive interview with Italian athletes is published every Wednesday who will take part in the Olympic and Paralympic Games and are already available on the site:

From May, one will also be published weekly great Olympic history in longform version until the day of the Opening Ceremony with the new disciplines as protagonists, such as the sporting evolution of breakdancing, the Refugee Team and the young stars from the center of the French national basketball team Victor Wembanyama, to the swimming champion Leon Marchand who, driven by the public home, will try to beat Phelps’ record in Paris (8 golds in Beijing 2008).

Scott YoungGroup SVP Content, Production and Business Operations at Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe:

«Today we mark 100 days until the Olympic Games return to Europe and the final countdown to Paris 2024, as well as the launch of our “Summer of Sport”. This year we will have more live hours and more original content to continue serving sports fans with action, news and entertainment 24 hours a day. We will be on the biggest sporting stages in the world: courtside at Roland-Garros, at every stage of the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes and at all 38 race venues in Paris and France to cover every moment of the Olympic Games summer. It will be total coverage.”

Since holding its first Olympic Games in PyeongChang 2018, Warner Bros. Discovery has involved an ever-increasing audience which has become record-breaking across Europe, confirming the success of its narrative storytelling applied to sport throughout the year. Recently, Warner Bros. Discovery recorded an unprecedented one billion minutes of streaming on Discovery+ and the Eurosport App during the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, with new digital subscribers exceeding those of previous Winter Games by 50%. At Tokyo 2020, more than 372 million people in Europe watched the Olympic Games on Warner Bros. Discovery channels and platforms.

Eurosport’s offer for Sky subscribers is growing with exceptional coverage
10 channels including one in 4K for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games,
with over 1000 hours of live broadcast more than the programming of Eurosport 1 and 2
And the tennis Roland-Garros will also be in 4K on Eurosport 4K

Sky And Warner Bros. Discovery today announce a new agreement that strengthens their multi-year partnership and expands their channel offerings Eurosport available on Sky. Thanks to this agreement, Sky subscribers will have access to 10 Eurosport channels, included in their subscriptionto follow i Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

To the two channels Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2 in fact they will be added 8 new channels entirely dedicated to the event – including one in 4K – on which you can follow many other sports disciplines. In total, they will be more than 1000 additional hours of live broadcast available on Sky and many contents will also be on demand. The agreement also provides for a Eurosport 4K channel which will light up on May 26th for the Roland Garros and will remain active for the two weeks of the tournament.

Andrea Duilio, CEO of Sky Italia

«We are really pleased with this new agreement, which consolidates our partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery. And I am happy to be able to give another wonderful news to our subscribers who, thanks to Eurosport, will also be able to enjoy the exploits of Sinner and the best players in the world at Roland-Garros in 4K and follow one of the most popular sporting events on 10 channels. expected: the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. All this in a sporting season that never stops: in the long summer that is tinged with blue on Sky, UEFA EURO 2024 and Wimbledon stand out, up until September with the European football cups exclusively and more matches with the top Serie A teams»..

Alessandro Araimo, Managing Director Warner Bros. Discovery Southern Europe:

«This agreement is a strategic step to broaden the coverage of a long-awaited event such as the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and we are pleased that it is an opportunity to strengthen the partnership with Sky. Eurosport’s sporting events represent a formidable asset in terms of coverage and quality for all our partners and we look forward to broadcasting a memorable edition of the Olympic Games, as well as all the other events that are part of our offer»..

Eurosport’s additional channels in HD for the Paris 2024 Olympics they will be available to all Sky customers, included in their subscription, and will also be visible on Sky Go. The Eurosport 4K channel, which will be switched on for Roland-Garros and the Olympic Games, will be available at no additional cost to Sky customers with an optional Sky HD 4K/Sky Ultra HD service active.

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