Paris 2024 breaks BBC Sport record with 218m streams

BBC Sport's sum of nan 2024 Paris Olympics was streamed a record-breaking 218 cardinal times online - much than doubling nan 104 cardinal streams recorded during nan Tokyo Games 3 years ago.

BBC TV besides enjoyed consistently precocious viewing figures, pinch a highest assemblage of complete six cardinal viewers connected 14 abstracted days.

Keely Hodgkinson's golden medal successful nan women’s 800m last was nan astir watched arena pinch 9.1million viewers connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

Paris handed complete to nan metropolis of Los Angeles - who will big nan Games successful 2028 - during nan closing ceremonial connected Sunday.

Across nan 19 days of competition, 36.1 cardinal viewers watched 15 minutes aliases much of nan Paris Olympics connected BBC TV - balanced to 59% of nan UK population.

The BBC iPlayer besides saw 12.2 cardinal group motion successful to their relationship to watch nan action.

Alex Kay-Jelski, head of BBC Sport, said nan broadcaster "has been location to champion nan athletes" and besides to "take nan assemblage connected a travel crossed aggregate sporting disciplines".

He added: "It is not an easy job, but these figures crossed digital, linear, online and audio demonstrates that BBC Sport's unsocial multi-platform connection is tin of uniting nan federation pinch nan very champion of British storytelling."

Other BBC TV highlights see 8.5m viewers tuning successful to watch Adam Peaty return silver successful nan men's 100m breaststroke last and 7.3m viewers watching Katarina Johnson-Thompson unafraid her first Olympic medal pinch a metallic successful nan heptathlon.