The 2024 Paris Paralympic Games begin on Wednesday 28 August at 7.30pm, with UK fans being able to enjoy coverage via Channel 4 and More4.
The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games promises to be the largest ever broadcast on Channel 4, featuring over 1,300 hours of live sports coverage available for free on Channel 4, More4, Channel 4 Streaming, and Channel 4 Sport’s YouTube. From the Opening Ceremony on Wednesday, August 28, to the Closing Ceremony on Sunday, September 8, Channel 4 will bring viewers all the action, medals, and must-see moments from every Paralympic venue across Paris.
Building on the groundbreaking achievements of past Paralympic coverage, Paris 2024 is set to be Channel 4’s most accessible Games to date. All content will be broadcast with subtitles, and live peak time sport on Channel 4 will have closed audio description. Additionally, live sport on More4 and Channel 4 Streaming during weekday afternoons will include BSL live signing.
The Opening and Closing Ceremonies will be simulcast on 4Seven and Channel 4 Streaming with BSL and open descriptive commentary. Furthermore, all episodes of The Last Leg and daily highlights programs will also be simulcast on 4Seven and Channel 4 Streaming with BSL live signing, while daily highlights on Channel 4 will feature live closed audio description.
Over the 12-day event, coverage begins at breakfast and follows all the medals and stories of the day until the action concludes, broadcasting across two channels and Channel 4 Streaming. Additionally, every televised moment of the Paralympics will be streamed on Channel 4 Sport’s YouTube channel, with up to 18 concurrent streams. For the first time since London 2012, key finals and podium moments will take place during prime time viewing, uniting the UK in celebration of Paralympic sport. C’est magnifique!
Channel 4’s elite team of presenters, pundits, reporters, and commentators includes the return of Ade Adepitan for Paris 2024, joined by five-time Paralympic swimming champion and BAFTA-winner Ellie Simmonds, making her Channel 4 presentation debut. Actress, producer, and activist Rose Ayling-Ellis will present live for the first time, hosting alongside Clare Balding from a new position inside the Athletes’ Village.
The team also features racing-driver-turned-commentator Billy Monger, Invictus Games medallist and presenter JJ Chalmers, adventurer and former rugby union player Ed Jackson, TV and radio presenter Vick Hope, comedian Josh Pugh, and sports presenter Lee McKenzie.
Viewers will be immersed in the excitement and celebrations across Paris, with reporters stationed inside venues and on the streets of the city. The team of young and emerging talent includes content creator and comedian Fats Timbo, ex-rugby player and Gladiators’ ‘Fury’ Jodie Ounsley, Paralympic gold-medal swimmer Ellie Robinson, award-winning actor Lenny Rush, content creator Milly Pickles, wheelchair basketball player Gaz Choudhry, sports reporter Jordan Jarrett-Bryan, and actor George Robinson from Netflix’s Sex Education.
Expert punditry and analysis will be provided by multi-Paralympic medallist Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson, the most decorated Paralympian of all time Dame Sarah Storey, Paralympic gold-medal sprinter Libby Clegg, former ParalympicsGB wheelchair rugby captain Steve Brown, Paralympic gold-medal athlete Danny Crates, and wheelchair tennis players Louise Hunt and Jayant Mistry.
When the sporting action concludes, The Last Leg takes over with Adam Hills, Alex Brooker, and Josh Widdicombe live in Paris throughout the Games, offering their unique comedic perspective on the day’s events, joined by a variety of guests and a live studio audience.
On More4, presenter Arthur Williams leads the coverage of team sports alongside former Paralympic swimmers Kate Ager and Rachael Latham. Every match of the wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby campaigns will be broadcast, along with comprehensive coverage of team equestrian events and major table tennis and boccia matches.
Channel 4’s coverage of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, produced by Whisper, will feature multiple studios and locations across Paris, including the Stade De France, La Défense Arena, the Athletes’ Village, ParalympicsGB House, and the Pont Alexandre III, capturing both the majesty of Paris and the elite sporting action.
For the first time, remote galleries and the back-of-house production team will be based in Cardiff, where a new state-of-the-art facility is being built for the Games. This facility will house around 200 people working on Channel 4’s Paralympics coverage, including 16 disabled individuals from the broadcaster’s Paralympics Production Trainee Scheme. The Paris 2024 Paralympics will be the largest sports production ever in Wales, and the new, fully accessible hub is expected to leave a lasting legacy for the nation.
Paris 2024 Paralympic Games schedule on Channel 4, More4 and Streaming
Times and presenters stated below may vary/subject to change:
Wednesday 28 August
1930-2230
Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony presented by Ade Adepitan, Clare Balding and Ellie Simmonds*
2230-2330
The Last Leg**, hosted by Adam Hills, Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe.
Thursday 29 August – Saturday 7 September
0800-1100
Breakfast with Billy Monger and Vick Hope
1100-1500
Daytime Live presented by JJ Chalmers
1500-1800
Afternoon Live with Rose Ayling-Ellis and Clare Balding
1830-2130
Evening Live with Ade Adepitan, Ellie Simmonds and Clare Balding
2130-2230
The Last Leg
2230-23-30
Highlights** with Josh Pugh and Gaz Choudhry
More40900-2100
Coverage of team sports presented by Arthur Williams
Sunday 8 September
0700-1030
Breakfast
1030-1430
Daytime Live
1430-1800
Afternoon Live
2000-2300
Paris 2024 Paralympic Closing Ceremony presented by Ade Adepitan, Clare Balding and Ellie Simmonds
2300-0000
The Last Leg
*Dates and times subject to confirmation
In addition to live coverage of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, sponsored by Allianz and Toyota across Channel 4, More 4, Channel 4 Streaming and social channels, Channel 4 will also broadcast a series of documentaries in the build up to the Games.
These include a two-part series – Path to Paris: The Hunt for Gold (21.07.24 tbc) and Path to Paris: Paralympic Dreams (25.08.24 tbc) – which follows British athletes as they prepare for the summer Olympics and Paralympics in Paris 2024.
Britain’s most decorated Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey presents Paris 24: Meet the Paralympians with Sarah Storey (24.08.24 tbc) where she finds out more about her teammates Will Bayley (table tennis), Susannah Hext (swimming), David Smith (boccia) and Jaco Van Gas (cycling).
Equal Play (26.08.24 tbc), a one-off documentary featuring Paralympian Hannah Cockcroft, investigates how school students with disabilities can find themselves isolated and excluded due to the lack of opportunities to take part in sports and physical education.
Plus, a series of 12 three-minute films profiling British Paralympians will also play out each evening after Channel 4 News in the weeks leading up to the Games. Starting on Monday 15 July, the films are the maiden commission for Ade Adepitan’s Bolla Media production company.
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