Ariana Television Network (ATN) is thrilled to announce it has secured a deal to officially broadcast one of the world’s greatest sporting events – this year’s Olympic Games.
ATN will broadcast the Paris 2024 Olympics officially and exclusively on Ariana Television.
The games will start on Friday, July 26 and run through to Sunday August 11.
This latest announcement comes amid ATN’s continued efforts to secure broadcasting agreements with international sporting organizations in order to bring world-class events to the people of Afghanistan.
Over the past few years, Ariana Television has broadcast countless sporting events, from cricket to football, futsal and of the Olympics.
Tokyo Games 2020 was broadcast exclusively by Ariana Television, as was the Beijing Winter Games in 2022. Rio Games in 2016 was also broadcast exclusively by Ariana Television.
With just over three months to go before this year’s games begin, official processes are already underway and on Tuesday, Olympic officials stressed that the Paris Games will set new milestones and that “these Olympic Games will be younger, more inclusive, more urban, more sustainable.
“These will be the very first Olympic Games with full gender parity, because the IOC allocated exactly 50 percent of the places to female and male athletes,” International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.
Paris Olympics chief organizer Tony Estanguet noted that women took part for the first time in the Paris 1900 Games.
The sacred flame for the Paris 2024 Olympics was meanwhile lit Tuesday in Olympia, Greece, the birthplace of the ancient Games, in a ceremony inspired by antiquity and marked by messages of hope amid multiple global crises.
Speaking at the ceremony, Bach said: “In ancient times, the Olympic Games brought together the Greek city states, even – and in particular – during times of war and conflict.”
“Today, the Olympic Games are the only event that brings the entire world together in peaceful competition. Then as now, the Olympic athletes are sending this powerful message: yes, it is possible to compete fiercely against each other and at the same time live peacefully together under one roof,” he said.
An 11-day relay on Greek soil is now underway and some 600 torchbearers will carry the flame over a distance of 5,000 kilometers through 41 municipalities.
The Olympic flame will be handed over to Paris 2024 organizers in a ceremony at the all-marble Panathenaic Stadium, site of the first modern Olympic Games of 1896, on April 26.
On April 27, the flame will begin its journey to France on board the 19th-century three-masted barque Belem, which was launched just weeks after the Athens 1896 Games.
France’s last surviving three-mast steel-hulled boat is expected to arrive in Marseille on May 8.
Ten thousand torchbearers will then carry the flame across 64 French territories.
It will travel through 400 towns and dozens of tourist attractions during its 12,000-kilometer journey through mainland France and overseas French territories in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific.
On July 26 it will form the centerpiece of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
Olympic Updates
Ariana News will be sure to keep all fans updated on news and broadcasting schedules around the Paris Olympics so be sure to watch this space for all the information you need.
