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Television Jamaica, or TVJ, went all out its Paris 2024 live coverage basically coming from a 1-hour daily preview show at midnight Jamaica time to 4pm with multiple sports, especially going to and prioritizing with Jamaicans being in them, although ultimately focusing on the track and field--many of the West Indian nations and territories bread and butter. TVJ served as the Paris 2024 hub with support from sister TV channels TVJ Sports Network (shooting, gymnastics, beach volleyball, volleyball, water polo, badminton) and JNN (like in soccer) whenever events overlap and can't get shown. TVJ ended things with a 1-hour post game show at 4pm simulcast on TVJ Sports and then devoted itself with a 1-hour highlight show at 8:30pm. 1 Spot Media and Hitz FM were also involved. I'll get more info as soon as I get it. A TVJ Paris 2024 promo which actually doesn't display any Summer Olympic footage at all; just the sights and scenes in Paris shown. Saying it's "gearing up for unparalleled coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Stay tuned for thrilling moments, outstanding performances, and the spirit of champions." Television Jamaica's Paris 2024 presentation sponsors were KFC, Coca-Cola, Digicel, National Commercial Bank, Red Stripe Beer, Sagicor Life, and Courts: https://www.facebook.com/televisionjamaica/videos/get-ready-to-witness-history-we-are-gearing-up-to-bring-you-unparalleled-coverag/887731749486639/ Jelena Sinik presents her 20-second showreel of her televised design and animated work with her creative team for the Nine Network's massive Paris 2024 coverage, the most ambitious and biggest Australian TV broadcasting project, with help and support from Richard Squires, Dan Snitzer, Gary Yeung, Nicolette Axiak "and everyone else involved in the making of these beautiful pieces": Nine's newspapers family--specifically the editorial staff from The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, the Brisbane Times and WAtoday--meanwhile went on a 5-day strike after overwhelmingly ejecting an improved pay offer starting from the Friday official opening day. But it didn't impact Nine's multiplatform Paris 2024 coverage. So not everyone was getting into the Olympic spirit despite Nine's CEO's wishes: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/25/nine-newspapers-staff-vote-for-five-day-strike-on-eve-of-paris-olympics Telemundo's Paris 2024 US Spanish cross platform presentation struck gold with 3.9 billion minutes consumed across all platforms, up 51% Vs. Tokyo's as its most streamed and watched Olympics. Particularly when it came to Telemundo's Olympic broadcasting jewel: both men's and women's Olympic soccer! https://nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com/telemundo/2024/08/14/telemundos-spanish-language-coverage-of-paris-2024-wins-gold-with-3-9-billion-minutes-consumed-across-all-platforms-up-51-vs-tokyo/ By July's end, Telemundo was already up 44% in viewership for Paris through the opening weekend through a record 1.1B minutes were consumed on Telemundo, Universo, Peacock and Telemundo Digital Platforms. Soccer ranked huge but so did Telemundo's first ever Opening Ceremony telecast record-breaking at 3.5 million live minutes and overall hitting high in the largest cities with strong Spanish communities. Social media in the US Spanish Olympic realm was high too: https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/audiences-for-paris-olympics-on-telemundo-up-44-from-tokyo A documentary production team, including Kajuz, was granted access for behind the scenes material in multiple sports during the 100-day lead up for the 2024 Brazilian Olympic Team's road to Paris towards its 20-medal haul with association from the Brazilian Olympic Committee. The 70-minute documentary called Mission Paris: The trajectory of the COB and Team Brazil up to the biggest Games will be released this December coinciding with the Brazil Olympic Awards: https://ge.globo.com/olimpiadas/noticia/2024/09/30/bastidores-da-campanha-do-brasil-nas-olimpiadas-de-paris-viram-documentario.ghtml https://ge.globo.com/video/documentario-vai-mostrar-bastidores-do-time-brasil-nas-olimpiadas-de-paris-2024-12965666.ghtml Aldo Bertoni, writer for Pianet Mountain Bike, expresses some disappointment towards "Mamma RAI" over how it betrayed Italian mountain bike fans during its overall Paris 2024 coverage as he was watch compare RAI 2/RAI Sport/RAIPlay with Discovery Italia despite the former promoting mountain biking on its programming guide and instead heading into other sports like water polo and men's tennis: https://www.pianetamountainbike.it/risultati-gare-mtb/57684-olimpiadi/70930-parigi-2024-mamma-rai-tradisce-per-la-seconda-volta-i-fans-della-mtb Despite that mishap, RAI struck it big overall (we'll get to that soon) with its Paris 2024 coverage. Including the online/social media realm https://www.rainews.it/articoli/2024/08/rainewsit-oltre-25-milioni-di-contatti--per-i-contenuti-olimpici-0bd4775c-25d3-45e7-976c-ff17c4804ff7.html NHK's Japanese-centric 18-day summary of how Team Japan fared at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics with all the highs and lows there: https://www3-nhk-or-jp.translate.goog/news/html/20240812/k10014546751000.html?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc With St. Lucia having sent just three athletes--Julien Alfred in athletics (100m and 200m) Micheal Joseph in athletics (400m) and Luc Chevrier in sailing--to Paris this summer, 1st National Bank has made a $30,000 donation from its Corporate Banking Manager Solomon Emmanuel presenting a check towards the 2024 Olympic broadcast with local media partners Helen Television System (HTS) making them Title Sponsors of the program. HTS was the exclusive Olympics broadcaster for Saint Lucia and brought the West Indies island nation Olympics coverage from Paris, France daily from 6:00am – 11:00pm. The Paris 2024 broadcast, shown and streamed on HTS Channel 4 and Cable 116, was set to feature daily reports, interviews from Paris and an emphasis on local and regional athletes. Proved to be quite huge as 1st National Bank-sponsored track star Julien Alfred made history in earning that nation's first medal--a gold in the women's 100m! Surely that was the most-watched TV event there: https://1stnationalbankonline.com/30000-sponsorship-for-olympics-broadcast/ The Paris Olympic Games have 32.2 million viewers on RTVE, almost 70% of the population 85.3% of viewers have followed them exclusively on Spanish Television and 14.7% have used RTVE Play Channel 1 (La 1 with 213 hours), with 18.2%, has the best record for the Olympics since Beijing 2008. Channel 2 (La 2 with 80 hours) achieves 4.4%, the same as in Rio, and Teledeporte (412 hours), with 4.1%, improves on the results of Tokyo and leads among thematic channels. La 1 has added 0.6 points to its annual average in 2024 before the start of the Games, and Teledeporte has grown 0.3 points RTVE Play contributes to increasing the total coverage achieved by television by 2.4% and reaches younger audiences The most watched event on the TVE channels was the Djokovic-Alcaraz tennis final with 36.8%, 3,578,000 and 10,262,000 unique viewers. The men's football final between France and Spain followed with (match + extra time) 36.9% and 3,049,000 viewers. Channel 1 (23.5%) achieves its best Olympic Games record and the Djokovic-Alcaraz tennis final is the most watched of the month The most watched event on Teledeporte was the women's canoeing event Kayak cross with an audience of 928,000 viewers and a 9.3% share. All from the Kantar Media Cross-Platform ViewTM measurement. The Olympic offer on RTVE Play reaches mainly viewers between 13 and 44 years old. https://www.rtve.es/rtve/20240812/juegos-olimpicos-jjoo-paris-2024-paris-suman-322-millones-espectadores-rtve-70-poblacion/16216281.shtml Spectrum got involved to provide complete coverage of NBC's Paris 2024 multiplatform presentation: https://corporate.charter.com/newsroom/spectrum-brings-nbcuniversal-coverage-of-2024-olympics

Wouldn't be surprised with those sponsors, especially coming from the Chinese/Saudi front. Look at FIBA, the international basketball governing body. It currently has multiple Chinese corporate partners like TCL, Wanda, Tencent, Yili, and Ganten. I wouldn't be shocked if the IOC followed suit. But having more global sponsors from many nations certainly makes the IOC, at least in part, live up to the "international" of its name Maybe Sony/Samsung could replace Panasonic's 37 years unless a Chinese company could step in.

Former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, along with French Constitutional Council President Laurent Fabius, congratulated China Media Group on its broadcast coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games as part of the mutual building of the China-France relationship and showcasing French culture and history for the France-China 60-year diplomatic relationship: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-09-09/Fabius-Raffarin-praise-CMG-for-broadcasting-Paris-2024--1wKDtKceEp2/p.html An inside behind the scenes look at the Paris IBC, where somewhere between 8,000 to 10,000 journalists and technicians were present providing "the competition's daily media coverage" every day at the 40,000 square meter Exhibition Center "nerve center" in Le Bourget, some ten kilometers north of Paris. All images and sound from the competition transmitted through this highly secure site with multiple TV studios, commentary booths, and technical control rooms "everything was designed, proposed and often invoiced by Olympic subsidiary the OBS": https://www.lemonde.fr/en/media/article/2024/07/19/paris-2024-behind-the-scenes-of-the-international-broadcast-center-the-olympics-media-and-technical-heart_6689461_22.html Plus, it was French telecommunication giant Orange, formerly France Telecom, that provided the connecting and sole service of delivering live Paris 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic coverage at the International Broadcasting Center and connecting from all points within France and even Tahiti, including a 5G network, connecting with the OBS English international satelitte feed as networks' with greater resources opting to send their images via fiber. Pierre-Louis de Guillebon, CEO of Orange Events, explains how they covered both Games: https://www.orange.com/en/allconnected/paris2024/how-orange-delivers-live-coverage-paris-2024-olympic-and-paralympic-games YouTube viewers responded to the Paris 2024 viewing in a massive way in "watching more than 40B minutes (over 650M hours) of Olympics content during Paris 2024, including on the official Olympics YouTube channel and official broadcasters YouTube channels" and enjoyed record-breaking numbers this summer. Official Paris 2024 broadcasters and the IOC also brought more than 30 notable top YouTube creators to Paris, including Rick Azas (Eurosport), Liza Baez (Claro Sports), Haley Kalil, Carter Kench, Kristy Scott (NBCUniversal), and Sydney Morgan, Ian Boggs, RJ Karishma (IOC--wasn't aware of them being involved) so you could experience Paris 2024 through the lens of some of their favorite creators: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/paris-olympics-2024-recap/ https://www.techtimes.com/articles/307424/20240909/tech-times-weekly-wrap-cox-media-group-spies-user-convos.htm Paris 2024, as Comscore's Denan Ren notes, was going to definitely be a serious change and evolution from the traditional Olympic viewing habits, audience engagement, and structure involving NBC with newer technological changes, digital innovations, and access where Americans can watch the Opening Ceremony live and later tape-delayed during primetime, where it typically attracts larger TV audiences (as was previously the case with Tokyo 3 years ago on both counts as must be noted). Stronger social media engagements from TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, X, and Weibo and advertiser brand integration both went to unprecedented levels in major viewer consumption. For @NBCOlympics and @Olympics, total social media actions went twice as much leading towards the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony from Tokyo 2020 to 6.4 million: https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Blog/Paris-2024-Olympics-The-Evolution-of-Viewing-Experiences-and-Audience-Engagement SPORT BILD was impressed with Eurosport Germany this year with its coverage, including the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics and named the German broadcaster with Sports Editorial of the Year, winning the 2023-24 sports year. For a pleased Eurosport Germany's Jochen Gundel, "it is always about the combination of relaxedness, expertise and emotion. We want to convey what makes sport and people special - and do this with the right mix of classic television and digital diversity," https://presse.wbd-deutschland.de/post/kurz-nach-olympia-sport-bild-kurt-eurosport-zur-tv-redaktion-des Mexican Paris 2024 medalists Osmar Olvera, Juan Celaya Prisca Awiti, Marco Verde, Alejandra Valencia, Ana Paula Vázquez and Angela Ruiz became the center of attention over at TV Azteca Sports, as they were in charge of getting an Olympic medal for the Mexican Delegation at Paris 2024 in what started as a rumour but apparently became an exclusive but controversial contract when they only spoke to Televisa/TUDN after claiming their medals, and their fellow Mexican athletes, in Paris that got leaked afterwards--and refused to speak to other Mexican media outlets there to cover the events, infuriating them, until some Mexican athletes had to wait until their Televisa turn. An act that would also support them overall in their sporting careers along with media exposure: https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2024/08/16/revelan-cual-fue-el-acuerdo-de-exclusividad-de-televisa-con-deportistas-que-ganaron-medallas-en-paris-2024/ Cazé TV hired former ESPN Brasil (and currently at Amazon Prime) play-by-play guy Rômulo Mendonça to its team for its Paris 2024 broadcast coverage: https://www.jornale.com.br/post/caze-tv-contrata-romulo-mendonca-para-a-olimpiada-de-paris

Barbara Ellen from the Guardian immerses and navigates her way as a Brit in the BBC's and Eurosport UK and Ireland's "exciting" Paris 2024 coverage, with all those multiple channels combined, and following Team GB's athletes and likes what she sees: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/jul/28/paris-games-tv-coverage-review-just-navigating-the-channels-feels-like-an-olympic-sport NBC's Paris 2024 TV viewership ratings are up 78% from Tokyo's. Lots of factors are in play: cable and Peacock viewing are up and being more accepted, Team USA performing very well (as they always do) with top draws shining, seeing the fans back in the stands from the pandemic creating a more charged atmosphere, more favorable time zone for the US: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5057170/paris-olympics-tv-ratings-tokyo-games-nbc Peacock will get mentioned many times over here, however delayed, on NBC's Paris 2024 coverage and how it's improved since Tokyo and learned it lessons then. Now with streaming becoming increasingly and rapidly a force in sports broadcasting, the Olympic Games, be it Summer and Winter, with its multiple sports in the offering, is tailor-made for "addictive" viewer customization/fragmentation, viewing, and providing "have-it-your-way" choices and formats in presenting the Paris 2024 coverage. A brand new era in Olympic (and sports overall) media indeed: https://www.wired.com/story/nbc-peacock-2024-summer-olympics-coverage/ The IOC and its President Thomas Bach happily anticipates Olympic social channels will achieve breaking streaming and digital engagement along with viewership records upwards towards 8.5 billion worldwide from its media rights partners with "figures are going through the roof": https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/paris-2024-olympic-games-tv-digital-ioc-viewership-nbc-thomas-bach/ https://deadline.com/2024/08/olympics-tv-social-media-engagement-figures-through-roof-1236030898/ Lauren Hernandez is slaying it as the newest breakout broadcasting star from the Paris 2024 Olympics gymnastics. Obviously, she's definitely got a future in this, earning raves https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5678207/2024/08/05/laurie-hernandez-nbc-gymnastics-paris-olympics/ Nine Network Australia returned to Olympics broadcasting in 12 years, and, if you've been paying attention, went big in its multiplatform Paris 2024 coverage. Using XR tech and graphics new to Australia to make some on-site Paris eye candy Nine has also recruited and deployed AE Live, Jago Design, and augmented reality to design, create, and develop the main Paris 2024 studio and offer graphics. Even had help from Nine's North Sydney headquarters with its team of 20 graphics operators, technicians, designers, developers, producers, directors, switchers, and project managers supporting this broadcast: https://www.newscaststudio.com/2024/07/31/nines-olympic-coverage-combines-paris-views-with-xr-tech/ RAI 2 enjoyed a 13% prime time boost in its share with a Italy-Serbia quarterfinal must-see appointment game from its 9:00-10:30 slot: https://www.agi.it/sport/news/2024-08-07/parigi-2024-rai-olimpiadi-crescono-ascolti-tg2-27413414/ Non-French media rave about their Paris experience. Everything: the sites, the scenery, the venues and it atmosphere, and even the transportation! https://rmcsport.bfmtv.com/jeux-olympiques/jo-2024-c-est-fantastique-les-medias-etrangers-conquis-par-l-ambiance-les-sites-et-les-transports_AV-202408070367.html

That France-Germany handball quarterfinal was just straight NUTS! As well as epic. Just unfortunate this was not in the later stage of the handball competition. French handball hearts are broken right now. But why did coach Guillaume Gille called a timeout just seconds remaining when he should've let time run out with just a point ahead for advancement?

I guess this can be called Wonderful Wednesday in Australian sports.

Guess we've found an even bigger disappointment than the Canadian women's basketball team in Paris. And this comes as a capper in a really disappointing Olympic day yesterday for Canada save for Richmond, BC native Camryn Rogers' hammer throw win (more on that later). Debatable in the disappointment considering the overall talent in the basketball competition, Canada's depth of NBA-caliber talent and their lofty medal aspirations and expectations and World Championship success last summer, how undersized Canada is in comparison against France for example, and how it's not really shocking or unforeseen at all. Actually, when I saw who the Canadians were being matched up against, I had a bad feeling about this game. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander would say later postgame, to famously quote Mike Tyson, that Canada "got punched in the mouth". Well said. SGA was brilliant but the rest of the team was inconsistent, save for RJ Barrett. What went wrong for the Canadian men against France? Jamal Murray didn't look right and didn't look like himself all tournament long. France had quality size to counter them and more aggressive in the paint and played physical and unrelenting--outclassed, outplayed, and outworked. No urgency or valuing possessions. First Olympic men's basketball berth in 24 years and showing it inopportunely. Intimidating, full-throated, and loud pro-France crowd that their team feed off of. Poor shooting, ball movement, and rebounding. Not enough in serious non-NBA experience but having FIBA rules, Euroleague players who were more aggressive and can be NBA-caliber. No cohesion. You hope this won't end up emulating of that post-Sydney 2000 period for Canadian basketball with this acting as a catalyst for an international downturn--France was involved in Canada's quarterfinal ouster back then en route to a silver after the latter's promising start. Deja vu all over again? Not adjusting and adapting to their opponents even when sacrificing their perceived strengths. Halfcourt offense was shaky. Psychologically crumbled under pressure in its recent past with qualification on the line, resulting in missed opportunities, coming back to haunt them. This all matters when none of the Canadians had Olympic experience--only a handful of them were barely around when Canada last was in Olympic basketball with Sydney 2000, men and women. Now all of Canada's promising basketball squads, 3x3 included, will leave Paris medal-less, disappointingly falling short of expectations. What's Canada Basketball going to do in response, and how, for the next cycle with Los Angeles on the horizon will matter and determine their fate and legacy. Still it feels like this was their chance with all that improvement. Been said sky's still the limit and the "future is still bright for a well-funded, well-prepared, star-studded, organized, and deep with a solid pipeline of young players coming for Canada Basketball, and yet still; sports can be cruel and unforgiving." Still room for doom and gloom with uncertainty all rearing its ugly head like here while hope still exists: https://www.tsn.ca/talent/olympics/canada-s-olympic-run-ends-with-heartbreaking-quarterfinals-loss-1.2158947?collectionId=TSN/RELATED/ARTICLES/MORELIKETHIS https://www.tsn.ca/nba/canada-out-of-men-s-olympic-basketball-tournament-with-loss-to-france-1.2158737?collectionId=TSN/RELATED/ARTICLES/MORELIKETHIS https://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/article/nightmare-fans-react-to-canadas-disappointing-olympic-loss-to-france/ https://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/article/canadas-olympic-dream-remains-just-that-after-excruciating-loss/ https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5684900/2024/08/06/canada-basketball-paris-olympics-2024-loss-france/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/esfandiarbaraheni/2024/08/06/five-takeaways-from-canada-basketballs-disappointing-olympic-summer/ https://nationalpost.com/sports/olympics/canada-france-basketball-out-olympics-victor-wembanyama https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/08/06/canada-basketball-score-vs-france-2024-paris-olympics-shai-gilgeous-alexander/74692143007/ https://lastwordonsports.com/basketball/2024/08/07/nba-champion-struggles-on-international-stage/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/basketball/olympics-basketball-canada-france-loss-grunwald-1.7286731 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olympics/article-canadas-mens-basketball-team-loses-against-france-in-olympic/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/08/04/team-canada-mens-basketball-olympic-expectations/74664316007/ https://olympic.ca/2024/08/06/canada-stunned-by-france-exits-in-quarterfinal-round-of-mens-basketball-tournament/

That was nonetheless an epic and entertaining match versus Italy. Sorry for the collapse and end result.

Mates, don't ever touch cocaine! Just say no... Unnamed Australian Kookaburra Field Hockey Player Taken Into Custody In Paris With 16 Year Old Drug Dealer Over A Cocaine Transaction And the Opals just blasted Serbia convincingly 85-67 in the Quarterfinals. As many of you know here, I'm an American but I really enjoy and follow the Australian/New Zealand sports scenes. Right now, I'm kinda miffed as to why NBC in its non-Peacock/online Paris 2024 broadcasts, they're not giving the Opals some love--hence the normal FIBA broadcasting duo serving the worldwide OBS feed. I think it's Jeff Taylor and Kim Smith we get for the non NBC-designated commentators. NBC hardly talks about the Opals at all and show one of their games despite being a serious medal contender. Australia does have a number of WNBA players (and have some serious previous WNBA experience in the case of Lauren Jackson), even some those are not currently on the roster like Shyla Heal and are really good. Surely, Nine and Stan Sport are given the Opals much respect in their coverage. Bad news though: they as reward will very likely face Team USA in the semis once the USA dispenses Nigeria. As for the Matildas, Sam Kerr's ACL injury clearly worked against them in a very powerful group that they were in. Thought they would advance out of group play. Given the momentum they got from last summer as WWC co-hosts and capturing the nation's hearts, I thought this would carry over to here. Catley, Arnold, Heyman, Fowler, Foord, Hunt, Kennedy, Van Egmond, Gorry, Carpenter, Carpenter, Torpey, Raso, Hunt, Vine, and Wheeler all certainly were capable in stepping up in Kerr's absence. We'll forgive them for that and of the group they were in. Disappointing all around though.

And obviously, the Brazilian women would very much like to win for Marta and have her walk away with major silverware

What have both the Boomers and Opals did to deserve to open their elimination rounds in basketball with Serbia? This could be scary considering the Serbian pedigree. I remember when the Serbians knocked off the Opals in the quarterfinals after barely qualifying in Rio De Janero in what turned out to be the great Penny Taylor's final game, and her teammates, embarassed over what happened for what they failed to do, couldn't look at her in the eye. The bronze-winning Boomers even with the young and dynamic Josh Giddey have aging players with Patty Mills not what he once was. Joe Ingles isn't around now. Will the surviving Opals players learn from what happened 8 years ago? If Lauren Jackson was around then, it would not have happened.

You mean Pita?

This is dedicated to those who for whatever reason are not involved in these Paris 2024 Summer Olympics in some way and wished they're involved and made a meaningful impact. Be it they got injured, missed qualification, retired, got pregnant, got left out off the team, politics, what have you, and had issues prior to the start of these Olympics. You can name whoever you want to mention.

OK, I'm back! Let's get right on back to it. Will be a smaller one before the much bigger one later this week. Some more Opening Ceremony viewership records including Britain's to observe and start with The Paris 2024 opening ceremony was watched by 28.6 million viewers across NBCUniversal platforms (including more than 2.5 million streaming viewers on Peacock) in the US, which makes it the most watched curtain-raiser event for an Olympics since London 2012. France Télévisions recorded an average audience of 23.2 million viewers for the ceremony on its France 2 linear channel, as well as a viewership peak of 25.2 million but still fell short of the France-Argentina 2022 World Cup final (24.08 million) despite surpassing all French Olympic broadcasts since Beijing 2008 onwards. In the UK, the BBC delivered an average audience of 6.8 million viewers, with a peak crowd of 7.9 million tuning in on BBC One. The event was watched by 13.3 million viewers in Canada across CBC, TSN, Sportsnet and RDS. Germany’s public broadcaster ARD drew in an average viewership of 10.1 million, which was an audience market share of 45.7 per cent--most watched since Athens 20204. In Italy, Rai’s linear television coverage was followed live by 4.2 million viewers, which translated to a 29.2 per cent audience share. Australian broadcaster Nine’s live coverage was watched by 2.14 million viewers nationally: https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/paris-2024-opening-ceremony-viewership-nbcuniversal-bbc-france-televisions/ Chunghwa Telecom, which garnered the Taiwanese exclusive IPTV and streaming rights from Olympics domestic rights holder ELTA TV, reported that their streaming platform HamiVideo experienced a server crash during the broadcast of the men's double badminton knockout stage, as the Chinese Taipei male duo of Li Yang and Wang Qilin successfully advanced to the Gold medal matches on August 1 thanks to an instant influx of Taiwanese viewers: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/ahel/202408020157.aspx Wikipedia and the IOC lists Venezuela's TVES as the sole broadcaster for the Venezuelan Paris 2024 Summer Olympics coverage, but when I visited TVES' website there was no schedule replete with the tv schedule. Hopefully I'll get more when there's more time. For Norway's TVNorge/HBO MAX/Eurosport Norge, the opening women's team handball match between Scandinavian rivals Norway and Sweden was a massive start with a peak of 531,000 Norwegian viewers with a viewing share of 67% in Norway, meaning two out of three Norwegian TV viewers chose this on TVNorge: https://presse-warnerbrosdiscovery-no.translate.goog/post/over-500-000-sa-handballjentenes-apningskamp-i-ol?_x_tr_sl=no&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc Continuing on with the Norwegian Paris 2024 viewing bonanza for TVNorge and HBO Max with 633 hours of live sport and 46 gold medals (among the 140 medals awarded overall) in 14 sports were awarded this past weekend--and in the digital viewing figures. More than six times as many hours have been streamed on Max as in the same period on discovery+ in Tokyo, and already after one week Max passed the number of hours streamed as during the whole of Tokyo in 2021. TVNorge ruled being the largest channel in the 25-69 age group on both Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, with a market share of 32 per cent on Sunday. That's higher than at any point during the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games: https://presse-warnerbrosdiscovery-no.translate.goog/post/46-gullmedaljer-skal-deles-ut-superhelg-i-vente-pa-max-og-tvnorg?_x_tr_sl=no&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc Bulgarian Olympic followers can check out BNT's Paris 2024 coverage from BNT 1 and BNT 3 on BNT Sports Viber free package: https://bnt.bg/news/bnt-sas-specialen-paket-sportni-stikeri-vav-viber-za-olimpiyski-igri-parizh-2024-330827news.html Audio Technica provided NBC with 600 microphones, headsets, and headphones for their Olympics and Paralympics production. The quality and reliability of Audio-Technica hardware, as well as the tonal quality of the products, allow us to be consistently creative in NBC's audio production. Be it "using a mono or stereo shotgun microphone or an immersive 8.0 microphone, Audio-Technica’s products will ensure exceptional sound quality for NBC Sports production both in Paris and Stamford" in extending its 24-year partnership with NBC Sports: https://www.sportsvideo.org/blogs/?blog=paris-2024&news=paris-2024-nbc-to-bring-sound-of-the-games-to-life-with-audio-technica-mics-and-audio-gear France Televisions turn to Haivision and Obvios for its exclusive UHD Paris 2024 surfing competition coverage in from Teahupo’o, Tahiti with 5G Dome network, the ultra-low latency Haivision Pro460 mobile video transmitters to capture and transmit live contribution streams of pre- and post-event content, StreamHub receivers, and freedom of camera movement: https://www.sportsvideo.org/2024/07/12/france-televisions-partners-with-haivision-for-exclusive-coverage-of-the-paris-2024-olympic-games-surfing-competition/ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/haivision-announces-that-france-televisions-will-provide-exclusive-coverage-of-the-paris-2024-olympic-games-surfing-competition-with-haivisions-private-5g-video-transmission-ecosystem-302195181.html

Read the article, seems to me Luana Alonso made some sexy OnlyFans nude photos/sex vids and posted them on social media. And she's not the only one kicked out of the Olympic Village with Brazilian swimmers Ana Carolina Vieria and Gabriel Santos banned for leaving the Olympic Village without Brazilian Olympic officials' knowledge or permission and posting social media photos--acting in a "contested, aggressive, and disrespecting manner", as Guilga notes on the Brazil thread. Santos came out with only a warning with Vieria heading back to Brazil: https://ge.globo.com/google/amp/olimpiadas/noticia/2024/07/28/atletas-de-natacao-do-brasil-cometem-indisciplina-e-sao-punidos.ghtml