For the first time in Summer Olympics history, breakdancing is an official sport in 2024. The highly-anticipated debut in Paris gets underway with the women’s competition on Friday, followed up by the men on Saturday.
In the United States, both events will be televised live on E!, and Peacock will also stream coverage. This opens up a number of different ways you can watch a live stream of breaking at the 2024 Olympics, so here’s everything you need to know.
In the United States, the only way to watch every single Olympic event live without cable is with a subscription to Peacock. All you need is the most basic “Premium” tier, which costs $8 per month, and you’ll be able to watch anything you want at the Olympics, including every dance in both the men’s and women’s breaking competition.
With Peacock, you can watch live or on-demand. It also includes a multi-view option, which lets you put multiple sports or events into a split-screen and watch them all at the same time.
Peacock is certainly the best all-encompassing live-stream option for the Olympics. However, if you’re only interested in watching breaking, and you want to do it without paying anything, you can do exactly that through Fubo, YouTube TV or DirecTV Stream.
These are cable-cutting, live-TV streaming services that let you watch TV live on your computer, phone or streaming device. All three include E! (as well as NBC, CNBC and USA Network for other Olympic events), and all come with a free trial, meaning you can watch unrestricted for a handful of days (seven with Fubo, five with YouTube TV or DirecTV Stream) before you either cancel or pay for the first month. If you cancel before your free trial ends, you won’t have to pay anything.
All of the aforementioned streaming options are restricted as US-only options, but you can actually use a virtual private network (VPN) to hide your location and connect to a digital server in the United States. This makes it seem as though you’re actually in the US, allowing you to access all of those sites.
Most VPN’s will work for this purpose, and we’ve highlighted a handful of them in our lists of the best VPN services and the best VPN deals. But if you’re looking for a recommendation, we would go with NordVPN, which is fast, safe, easy to use and has over 2,000 digital servers in the US alone.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.