COLCHESTER’S Olympian boxer Lewis Richardson will be competing in the men’s welterweight quarterfinals tonight.

The men’s 71kg quarterfinal with Colchester’s Lewis Richardson is scheduled to take place at 7.32pm BST.

Lewis Richardson, 27, will face Jordan’s Zeyad Eashash, 25, who bet Kazakhstan’s Aslanbek Shymbergenov to progress past the opening round.

While scheduled for 7.48pm today BST India’s Nishant Dev will face Mexico’s Marco Alonso Verde Alvarez

If Lewis win the quarterfinals, he would then take part in the semi-finals on August 6, a victory which would guarantee a medal for team GB.

While the boxing 71kg men's final is on August 9.

Lewis was the only one of Team GB’s six boxers to get through to the second round, meaning Lewis himself prevented Team GB’s first boxing wipe out since 1996.

The BBC is broadcasting two live streams of the entire Games, a reduction following a 2015 deal between the International Olympic Committee and WBD (owner of Eurosport, Discovery and Discovery+).

This current agreement, which allows the BBC to show two live events at any one time and a total of 500 hours of coverage, will run until at least 2032.

On Saturday, the BBC’s coverage lasts from 8am until 1pm on BBC One and again from 1:15pm until 6pm, before 6.20 until 10pm - with BBC Two briefly pick up the coverage between 6pm and 6.20pm.

Meanwhile Discovery+ is the main rights holder for Paris 2024 and will be showing every sporting moment across its channels in the UK from 7am to 10.30pm every day.

The Paris Olympics are further streaming on BBC iPlayer, Discovery+ and