How to Watch the Olympics Online – For Free

If you’re looking for more ways to catch the Olympic Games – checking in with your favorite event, keeping track of your favorite countries and how they are doing, watching your favorite events and cheering on the contenders – you might have noticed already that this information can be a little tricky to track down. Because of time zones, it can be difficult for those of us who want to cheer on our athletes in real time. In this article, we’re going to take a look at how you can watch live streaming Olympic events right in your Web browser, along with recaps and previously live streams that you might not otherwise had a chance to see.

Note: Some of these broadcasts might not be available in your local area. There are ways to watch these broadcasts online via the use of proxy extensions; however, this method is considered illegal and is banned in most countries. Unfortunately, there is not a  legal service that exists that provides complete online live streaming and recorded video of all Olympic events, unedited, for viewers.

Because of various licensing agreements, many broadcasters restrict live streaming online access to domestic users online. This is known as geo-blocking, and is based on where your unique IP address is located. Basically, what this means is that if you try to view a live video stream on a site outside of your own country, you’ll see a message to the effect that the “content is not available”.

There is a way around this; however, it straddles the line between legal and illegal.You can mask your local IP address, replacing it with one that makes it appear to these broadcasters that you are located within the country from which they are broadcasting from. The most simple way to do this is with a VPN (virtual private network) extension (such as TunnelBear,)  which allows the user to simply switch the origin of their IP address to the country in which the live stream is being broadcast from.

Is this legal? As previously mentioned, it’s sort of in the middle. The use of VPNs and other proxies to unlock restricted content is fairly common, especially with global events such as the Olympics. We leave it to WebSearchSecrets.com readers to make up their own minds on whether they can in good conscience embark upon this process.

BBC Sports: Live coverage and live streaming of the Olympics.

NBC Olympics: Watch Olympic videos in your Web browser, along with replays, news, highlights, medal standings, and more. They don’t play a Web simulcast, but NBC has some of the best Olympic coverage online.Unfortunately, live streaming coverage is limited only to subscribers, who must log in with the username and password of their pay TV account. However, NBC is still worth checking out for their breadth of coverage and up to the minute information.

CBC Online Broadcast: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has an online broadcast that is incredibly high quality, with all kinds of extras to let you know who you are watching and the current standings of all games, athletes, and countries.

Olympic TV Official Site: Live Olympic viewing in every country via this official Olympics viewing guide. Find your country, then locate the broadcaster that will be streaming Olympics events. You can try watching events via other countries’ broadcasts than your own; this method is hit or miss since many countries block external viewers via IP addresses.

YouTube Olympics: Browse through country-specific content and catch fantastic Olympics highlights at the official Olympics YouTube channel.

Social Olympics: There are a wide variety of official Olympics media and personalities on various social platforms:

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