You can torrent easily on Linux using any distro and any client.
It’s very unlikely you’ll have any issues.
As the Olympics will be on a lot of TV channels, here’s how to get TV stations:
Here are a lot of live TV channels as m3u or m3u8 links: https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv – VLC player can open them, e.g. if you command-line vlc https://dx4452e0qv6r9.cloudfront.net/tg4_vod_national.m3u8
then VLC starts playing TG4 live.
About 700 live channels here in the browser: https://dlhd.so/24-7-channels.php
You’re welcome!