On August 8, Beijing time, CCTV unveiled the prelude to this week's sports feast, with sports channel (CCTV5), sports event channel (CCTV5+), CCTV16 and CCTV Sports Client (CCTV55) APP releasing a rich program list simultaneously. Despite it being a weekday, exciting events were still being staged, with the Women's World Cup, Chengdu Universiade, Chinese Super League and other domestic and international highlights coming together.
At noon, CCTV5 broadcasts sports news on time, with the friendly match between Liverpool and Darmstadt in the English Premier League attracting a lot of attention. Meanwhile, the U.S. Men's Basketball team faces the Puerto Rican Men's Basketball team in a warm-up game, the Tianjin Men's Basketball team meets the Fujian Men's Basketball team in the CBA Summer League, and the Xinjiang Men's Basketball team challenges the Sichuan Men's Basketball team.
In the afternoon session, CCTV5 will broadcast live the 1/8 final of the Women's World Cup, where South American powerhouse Colombia's women's soccer team and North America's Jamaica's women's soccer team will battle it out. The German women's soccer team has won the World Cup and the Olympic Games, while the Jamaican women's soccer team has pressed the Brazilian women's soccer team in Group F. The women's soccer team has won the World Cup and the Olympic Games. In the other one-eighth final, the French women's soccer team met with the Moroccan women's soccer team.
In the evening, CCTV5 presents a special program on the closing ceremony of the Chengdu Universiade, which will also be broadcast live on CCTV5+ and CCTV16. The Chinese team performed well in this year's Universiade, ranking at the top of the gold medal and medal table.
At night, CCTV5APP continues to bring exciting events, with the Chinese Super League, World Cycling Championships, ATP 1000 Men's Tennis Masters and other tournaments, featuring Chinese players ZHULIN and ZHANG Zhizhen.
