ALL ABOUT THE TOKYO 2020 OLYMPICS -> LINK
To be able to follow all the games of the Games on TV it will be necessary to subscribe to Discovery + or Eurosport Player, which have the first rights. Rai will show only the competitions it deems most important (hopefully also Mountain Bike). But not in streaming.
DISCOVERY +
The cost of the subscription is € 3,99 per month or € 39,90 per year. Thanks to this subscription you will be able to follow a total of over 3000 hours of live broadcast on 30 different streaming channels, choosing from time to time what to watch. It will not be possible to follow the Olympics on Eurosport channels which are part of the Sky package.
Discovery +, however, will also be accessible from TimVision and as a paid channel of Amazon Prime Video.
RAI
The television programming, exclusively free-to-air for Italy, signed by Raisport, with the director Auro Bulbarelli as team leader of the expedition, and the coordination entrusted to Gigi Cavone, Massimiliano Mascolo and Riccardo Pescante will begin at half past midnight. , with "Go Tokyo", the agenda of the Olympic day, which Arianna Secondini, when in Japan it will be 7.30 in the morning, will propose to viewers every evening, from 24 July onwards (on the 23rd the Opening Ceremony will be broadcast from 13.00 at 16.30).
From 1.30 to 17.15 pm, with only interruptions for the information of Tg2, a long story will unfold, punctuated by the various editions of the Olympic Tg, which at regular intervals will provide real-time updates, news and curiosities.
At 17.15 pm, when in Japan it will be just after midnight, here is "Tokyo best of", the space for the reinterpretation of the Olympic day just passed, with Jacopo Volpi, Julio Velasco and Fiona May: three intense hours and a quarter, between synthesis of competitions, interviews and comments. After Tg2, and, from Monday to Friday, after the evening study "Tg2 Post", comes "Il Circolo degli Anelli", with Alessandra De Stefano who will have two traveling companions next to her in the Rai studios in Milan who of Olympic triumphs: Sara SimeonI and Jury Chechi.
Finally, to close the day, before starting another, "Record", broadcast from 23.45 pm to half past midnight: born from the collaboration between Raisport and the New Formats Management, it will tell about the athletes and their businesses of yesterday and today. in an innovative way, with storytelling flanked by motion graphics, and storytelling in images as an editorial line. Images, graphics and augmented reality, and three sports storytellers - Maurizio Ruggeri, Andrea Fusco and Nadia Baia, Paralympic athlete and sitting volleyball ambassador - will compare champions and competitions from different eras, yesterday's legends and new Olympic sports.
TIME ZONE
The time zone is not our friend: Tokyo is 7 hours ahead so many medals will be awarded on the Italian night or in the early morning. We are lucky that the Mountain Bike will be early in the morning, precisely at 8.00.
SEE TIMETABLE BMX AND MTB TOKYO 2020 RACES
Olympic programming CYCLISM
Thanks to Ilenia Lazzaro, Discovery + commentator, here is the complete cycling program in detail from the Discovery station:
July 25 - Women's road cycling test online from 6 to 10.35 with Luca Gregorio
July 25 - Men's Olympic Triathlon from 23.30pm to 1.40am with Riccardo Roversi
July 26 - Men's XCO MTB from 8 to 10 with Andrea Campagna
July 26 - Women's Olympic Triathlon from 23.30 pm to 1.45 am with Riccardo Roversi
July 27 - Women's XCO MTB from 8 to 10 with Andrea Campagna
July 28 - Women's road time trial from 4.30 to 6.15 with Luca Gregorio
July 29 - BMX racing quarter-finals from 3 to 5 with Riccardo Roversi
July 30 - BMX racing semi finals and finals from 3 to 5.20 with Riccardo Roversi
July 31 - Mixed Relay Triathlon from 00.30 to 2.30 with Riccardo Roversi
