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I normally watch some of the Olympics or have it in the background on events that took my interest. This time I've not bothered. Because the media rights were sold the BBC can't do that much coverage.

I have a feeling this is probably going to have one of the lowest viewing figures ever for the games

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Is this why I can't find the opening ceremony on YouTube?

I've tried searching for a couple of days and couldn't find anything, just found some 5minute long summaries.

I've stopped caring, I'm always curious to see at least some event but this year they seem to have way too much friction in place for something that I'm really not that interested in.

I can find the full opening ceremony on Youtube, uploaded by Eurosport. I assume you're in the UK and that video isn't shown to you because of that?

I can only see a two minute long highlights video by eurosport. Perhaps I’m really bad at searching, could you share a link?

I’m not in the uk, but I’m in Spain, and it was mentioned that the sellout was europe-wide.

If I remember well, the opening ceremony of London olympics wasn't available on YouTube at that time either, I kind of remember searching for it at the time...

Due to Discovery paying almost $1bn for the rights, the BBC can only show 2 sports at once.

This is a far cry from London 2012, or Rio 2016, where they had 15 dedicated olympics channels and is a crying shame, as the coverage was usually top notch.

I have Sky TV in the UK and so have Discovery+ free for a year, and the coverage is extensive - but mostly without any commentating.

Well that is interesting. That might explain why NowTV dropped Discovery from the entertainment package at the end of last month.

They can't do it like they do on the discovery channel

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