People on social media have criticised the BBC’s coverage of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
The 2024 Summer Games officially kick off after a spectacular ceremony featuring personalities including football legend Zinedine Zidane and musicians Lady Gaga and Céline Dion, who performed from the Eiffel Tower.
A global audience of more than one billion people was expected to watch the opening ceremony from Paris.
But viewers in the UK were not happy with the BBC’s coverage.
Clare Balding opened the BBC’s broadcast of the opening ceremony alongside Michael Johnson, Rebecca Adlington and Sir Chris Hoy.
Despite the star-studded panel, fans who tuned in to the show were disappointed by the lack of coverage of the opening ceremony.
They felt there was too much talk among Olympic legends and not enough action from the French capital.
Image: BBC
One X user wrote: “So this BBC build-up to the opening ceremony is basically just talking about everything negative? Talk about ruining the festive atmosphere!”
A second tweeted: “I didn’t realise the opening ceremony was going to be a talk show.”
A third added: “I see we’re already talking a lot about casual chats in the studio.”
A fourth said: “Taking a break. Too much chatter.”
Another fumed: “I haven’t seen anything live on the BBC for so long that I’d forgotten that every programme requires NINETY DIFFERENT presenters talking over and over and talking and talking before, after and throughout.”
The BBC will not be able to show everything that will be on at this summer’s Olympics.
In 2015, Warner Brothers Discovery (WBC) bought the European television rights to the Olympic Games for an estimated sum of 1.3 billion euros.
WBC can show as many matches from Paris as it wants.
The BBC will have a network television channel and a second live broadcast during the Olympics.
Featured image credit: BBC
Topics: Olympics, Athletics
