BBC Sport’s protection of the 2024 Paris Olympics was streamed a record-breaking 218 million occasions on-line – greater than doubling the 104 million streams recorded throughout the Tokyo Video games three years in the past.
BBC TV additionally loved constantly excessive viewing figures, with a peak viewers of over six million viewers on 14 separate days.
Keely Hodgkinson’s gold medal within the girls’s 800m ultimate was probably the most watched occasion with 9.1million viewers on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
Paris handed over to town of Los Angeles – who will host the Video games in 2028 – throughout the closing ceremony on Sunday.
Throughout the 19 days of competitors, 36.1 million viewers watched quarter-hour or extra of the Paris Olympics on BBC TV – equal to 59% of the UK inhabitants.
The BBC iPlayer additionally noticed 12.2 million individuals register to their account to look at the motion.
Alex Kay-Jelski, director of BBC Sport, mentioned the broadcaster “has been there to champion the athletes” and likewise to “take the viewers on a journey throughout a number of sporting disciplines”.
He added: “It isn’t a simple job, however these figures throughout digital, linear, on-line and audio demonstrates that BBC Sport’s distinctive multi-platform provide is able to uniting the nation with the easiest of British storytelling.”
Different BBC TV highlights embody 8.5m viewers tuning in to look at Adam Peaty take silver within the males’s 100m breaststroke ultimate and seven.3m viewers watching Katarina Johnson-Thompson safe her first Olympic medal with a silver within the heptathlon.