Boxer Thabiso on SuperSport at 6: 30am

MBABANE – SuperSport, your home of Olympic action! Catch the world’s leading international multi- sport event this month on DStv’s SuperSport channel.

Eswatini is among the participants in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which officially open today. Two athletes in swimmer Robyn Young and welterweight boxer Thabiso Dlamini are already in Japan and the latter gets to action at 6: 30am against Cameroon’s Albert Mengue, Africa’s number one in the welterweight division of 63 to 69 kilogrammes.

Multichoice Eswatini has assured all DStv viewers that they can watch and follow the games as they unfold live.

“SuperSport viewers on DStv can look forward to the world’s biggest and most diverse celebration of sport, the Summer Olympic Games, which will run from July 23 to August 8, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. SuperSport is the ultimate destination for coverage of the Olympic Games, with thousands of world class athletes from around the world - including our great continent - set to entertain for over two weeks of incredible action from the Games of the XXXII Olympiad.

“DStv will feature eight dedicated channels for the Games with SuperSport Football Plus becoming Olympic Channel 1, while SuperSport Premier League, La Liga, Football, Variety 1, Variety 2, Variety 3 and Variety 4 become Olympic Channels 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 respectively,” read a press release by Multichoice Eswatini.

It is aimed that this will give viewers from across many different DStv packages the chance to witness action from the Summer Olympic Games, which is set to be the biggest sporting event of 2021. Olympic themed content will also be available on Catch- Up, while a focus on African athletes which will light up the games has already begun, with documentaries on Kenyan long- distance running star Eliud Kipchoge ( who is favourite to defend his Gold Medal in the Men’s Marathon), as well as Zambia’s Copper Queens, who upset the odds to qualify for the women’s football competition.