The number one sport destination in Europe for passionate fans, Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2 will soon launch on Vodafone TV and include, among other sporting highlights, live coverage on Eurosport from the 2018 and 2022 Olympic Winter Games and 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games. Both channels will join to the existing Discovery networks currently available on the Vodafone TV service; Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Science and IDX.

Achilleas Kanaris, Vodafone Greece, Consumer Commercial Director, stated: “As an integrated communication and entertainment services, at Vodafone we continue to enrich our television platform in partnership with top channels, producers and distributors on an international level. Our aim, through enhancing our partnership with the Discovery Communications is to bring to Vodafone TV subscribers high quality sports content, and the greatest sports events across the continent, offering a top entertainment experience”.

“Vodafone has been our long-standing partner in Greece for several years, and we are excited to extend this relationship further and add two new channels to their offering,” said Dilek Doyran, VP Commercial Development & Country Manager for Africa & the Mediterranean. the ultimate sportin“From 2018-2024, Eurosport will showcase the ultimate sporting event, the Olympic Games, to more people on more screens than ever before. The Olympic Games fuels the passion of competitors, fans and nations like no other Eurosport is proud to present live action to Vodafone TV subscribers, as well as the best in factual entertainment programming across our wider portfolio in 2017 and beyond.” 

Eurosport 1 is the home of some of the biggest passion sports including football, cycling, motorsports and tennis, with daily live action enhanced by the channel’s team of experienced local commentators, while Eurosport 2 offers complementary live coverage of all the best events broadcast on Eurosport 1.  Sporting highlights to look forward to across both channels later this year include The U.S. Open tennis tournament and La Vuelta cycling race in September, the start of the winter sports season in November, including the Ski Jumping and Biathlon World Cups, and in 2018 Eurosport will bring the best moments from the Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang.

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