Watch# Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Finals Live S..tream Online

If you’re planning to watch the Rio Olympics live online, you could certainly do much worse than catching one of the myriad of swimming events taking place during this summer’s event. For the Summer Olympic Games at Rio in 2016, swimming is going to be a major event with a slew of different distances and styles being covered by the best male and female aquatic athletes in the world. The women’s 4x100m freestyle relay will definitely be one to watch as it stands to be a very exciting affair. But when will be finals air? What about the heats? If your plan is to catch the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay finals live, watch online, but read our guide on how you can do so first!

The women’s 4x100m freestyle relay is one of the numerous swimming events that both men and women will be participating in over the course of Rio Olympics live stream. Freestyle is just one of the forms of professional swimming that will be on display in Rio de Janeiro this month, the others being medley, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly. And 4x100m is only one of the distance types that make up the swimming events, with the shortest being 50m and the longest being the 10k marathon.

In the case of the 4x100m type, teams of four representing each country compete in a relay, where they have to race to hand off a baton to the next person on their team as fast as they can, with the fourth member crossing the finish line first. As the name implies, each of the four swimmers on the team has to swim 100m each, as fast as possible. This will allow them to take advantage of their top speed without suffering from fatigue or losing control of the baton.

The women’s 4x100m freestyle relay finals live stream will take place at a different time of day than the preceding heats, though while they will be on different days in Rio, they will be on the same day here, thanks to the time difference. While the women’s event has fewer competitors and countries than the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay does, the competition is certainly no less fierce. So, how can you catch the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay finals live by watching online? Here’s our guide to Rio Olympics live streaming for the women’s freestyle relay swimming event.

The heats for the event take place in two sets on Saturday, August 6. The first heat will occur at 2:24 p.m. EST and will include China, Japan, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Denmark. Heat number two is shortly after, at 2:32 p.m. EST and will feature the U.S., Canada, Russia, Poland, France, Israel, Australia and the hosts, Brazil.

The finals, meanwhile, will take place in the evening on the same day, August 6, at 10:24 p.m. EST. Obviously, the heats have to end before we know which countries will be competing, but at least the date and time for the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay finals live stream is set in stone.

The Olympic broadcast rights this year (at least in the United States) have gone to NBC. Because of the scale and importance of the event, watching the Rio Olympics live online will be done through its own web site, NBCOlympics.com. While the functionality of the site is lacking at the moment on account of the Olympic Games in Rio 2016 (swimming and otherwise, not having begun yet), you can still check out lots of info about the games available on the site here.