Olympic Games: TV channel, kick-off times and live streaming in the UK

The Olympic football tournament is the oldest competition in international football - it predates the World Cup by twenty-eight years - and also the most misunderstood, because an age rule governs everything else. For men, squads are limited to players under twenty-three with three older players allowed per team, and clubs are not obliged to release their internationals: the tournament is therefore played with incomplete squads, which explains unexpected winners and the absence of several major nations. For women, by contrast, no age limit applies and the tournament is worth a world championship, making it one of the two major competitions in the women's calendar. Brazil, Argentina and Spain dominate the recent men's roll of honour, the United States the women's. Kick-off times depend on the host country of the Games, to be checked before each edition.

Also known as: Jeux-Olympiques