After a bunch of frustrated hunting through useless shit BBC pages, I eventually uncover that the "extensive" coverage on the BBC means they are only showing selective events, based on what they consider to be "the two most exciting or important events", because capitalism.

That's shit, but what makes it worse is they are not saying in advance what sports they consider those to be.

They have one page with a badly written buggy crap schedule and a separate page stating when it's on what channel but no hints of what they'll actually be covering - except that athletics timings seems to be split into every heat of every round of every event, so it'll probably be that.

Apparently Discovery+/Eurosport are showing all events, but they're a paid subscription service, and require a minimum six months subscription. Fuck that!

I'd consider a single month subscription if I knew that was the only way to watch it, and there was sufficient other programmes worth watching, and I could verify it would work on my device.

*sigh*

I don't know if there's any point in getting up in the morning. :(

Generally or specifically?

Is there no way your friend Jim who is a bit of a lad can help?

Instead, I ended up going to sleep stupidly late, and crawled out of bed around ten past midday.

Still, turns out it is being covered by the BBC - hidden behind a beach volleyball thumbnail and title, there's a 915 minute long Olympics morning episode, and I was able to jump to the 9am mark and, after a really fucking stupid dog puppet thing, there seems to be the full coverage of men's qualifying bouldering.

Hopefully this means they'll be showing all of it, because I don't know if it's something James can help with.

It was athletics on one channel and fucking horses on the other. :@

The big wall when you take the rope with you is Lead, the smaller walls without ropes is Bouldering.

Though half the bouldering was parkour-style, and not fully representative of what "proper" bouldering is, but is more common in competitions because it looks fancy, (and thus becoming more common with indoor centres because it's what people see).

I don't do lead because I don't find faffing around with ropes fun, but it was probably more enjoyable to watch because it was purer climbing, and because it was only one person on the wall at a time.