How to watch and follow: Melbourne 2024

Nicola Olyslagers in action in the high jump (© Getty Images)

The 2024 World Athletics Continental Tour Gold kicks off in Melbourne, Australia, on Thursday (15), and here’s how you can watch and follow the action, World Athletics reports.

Strong fields have been announced for the first Gold level meeting of this year’s Continental Tour. Britain’s 2022 world 1500m champion Jake Wightman will race Australian record-holder Stewart McSweyn and New Zealand’s Samuel Tanner in the John Landy Mile, while Oceanian record-holder Nicola Olyslagers, the Olympic silver medallist, continues her campaign in the high jump. Other athletes in action include Matt Denny in the discus, Sasha Zhoya in the 110m hurdles, and rising sprint star Torrie Lewis in the 100m.

Many athletes will use the World Athletics Continental Tour to prepare for the Olympic Games in Paris, where athletics will star as the No.1 sport.

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How to watch and follow

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A two-hour live stream of the meeting on Thursday, 15 February, will be available in several territories via World Athletics Inside Track. The live stream will start at 7:00 pm local time (8:00 am GMT / 9:00 am CET).

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The live stream will be geoblocked in the following territories:
American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo – Brazzaville, Congo – Kinshasa, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Czechia, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Finland, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Macao, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Montserrat, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, Rwanda, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, St. Barthélemy, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname, São Tomé & Príncipe, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Coverage of the meeting will be available in the territories listed below. This list is subject to change. Check local listings – some broadcasts may be live, while others include highlights.

FloSports (FloTrack)	American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States of America, Northern Mariana Islands
Maximo 360 / SuperSport GOtv Select 2 / SuperSport Liyu / SuperSport Variety 3 / SuperSport Variety 4 Africa	Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo DR, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Flow Sports	Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines VIN, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bermuda, Bonaire, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin
Directv Latin America	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
7plus	Australia
T.V. Arena Sport 1	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
ESPN Star+	Brazil, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
CBC	Canada
Ceska televize	Czechia
MTV Urheilu 1	Finland
SPOTV2	Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
AMC Sport 2	Hungary
Viacom 18 JioCinema / Sports18 – 3	India
The Sports Channel	Israel
Sky Sport Arena	Italy, San Marino, Vatican City
T.V. Arena Sport 3	Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia
Ziggo Sport	Netherlands
VG+ Sport	Norway
Polsat Sport Extra	Poland
Match Arena / Match Igra	Russia
JOJ Sport	Slovakia
T.V. Arena Sport 2	Slovenia
Elta Sports 2	Taiwan
Poverkhnost Sport 1 / Sport 3	Ukraine

The 2024 World Athletics Continental Tour calendar

15 February – Maurie Plant Meet, Melbourne (AUS)
14 April – Botswana Golden Grand Prix, Gaborone (BOT)
20 April – Kip Keino Classic, Nairobi (KEN)
18 May – USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix, Los Angeles (USA)
19 May – Seiko Golden Grand Prix, Tokyo (JPN)
28 May – Ostrava Golden Spike, Ostrava (CZE)
9 June – USATF New York City Grand Prix, New York (USA)
18 June – Paavo Nurmi Games, Turku (FIN)
21 June – Irena Szewinska Memorial, Bydgoszcz (POL)
7 July – FBK Games, Hengelo (NED)
9 July – Gyulai István Memorial, Szekesfehervar (HUN)
8 September – Memorial Borisa Hanzekovica, Zagreb (CRO)