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Post by natasha on Sept 8, 2008 9:09:11 GMT -5
Coming back to another Olympic post!  Today is the 1st day of the Paralympics games and I don't hear or see ANYTHING in the news about it!... it amazes me how the Olympics got such a enormous amount of attention and these people that trained as hard as all the athletes doesn't get any recognition...And I'm not saying this because of the Dev. factor; is just not fair.....  |
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Post by cunning69guy on Sept 8, 2008 10:38:28 GMT -5
Natasha, GE, the parent company of NBC which covered the Olympics has a website devoted to Paralympic coverage (I know, it's a said statement that with all their channels and near round the clock televising of the Olympics that they can't provide even one channel to cover the Paralympics, either live or in taped and edited format). You can check their coverage at this link: www.universalsports.com//SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=23000&KEY=&SPID=13327&SPSID=107765I believe there are other sites (like the IPC - International Paralympic Committee, and individual national paralympic websites) that might have webstreaming in addition to articles. |
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Post by Ouch on Sept 8, 2008 12:17:02 GMT -5
The Paralympics, in theory are being televised...but on this obscure channel, that I don't think a lot of people may have...I actually do, and it's in HD, too.
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Post by Pony on Sept 8, 2008 15:05:22 GMT -5
The only trouble I have with Paralympics is that everybody thinks if you're in a chair, then you have to race, don't you?  I don't know how many times people have asked me with this 'inspired' grin if I race. Then they look kinda disappointed when I say 'Only from party to party.' lol Another great stereotype is you either work in the gimp-field, computers or a Call Center, which I do the latter. lol So, guess I'm feeding the machine. |
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Post by Enid on Sept 8, 2008 15:16:38 GMT -5
I'm pretty impressed with the coverage here, actually. Mind you, some of the reporters need to do more research... I've already caught a couple saying really stupid things  And then sometimes they just start talking about "inspiration" and that kind of shit, but not much. They are trying. They've already finished two days... the opening ceremony was on Saturday. I've watched some swimming, but not much else, they were showing long track races today, but I can't stand those no matter what. They're focusing on sports with Spanish athletes, so for many of them there's only a small summary, but it's something! My main problem is that I won't be home when the quad rugby starts... I need to figure out if the videos will be available somewhere. |
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Post by Phil on Sept 8, 2008 17:28:53 GMT -5
The only trouble I have with Paralympics is that everybody thinks if you're in a chair, then you have to race, don't you? I don't know how many times people have asked me with this 'inspired' grin if I race. Then they look kinda disappointed when I say 'Only from party to party.' lol Another great stereotype is you either work in the gimp-field, computers or a Call Center, which I do the latter. lol So, guess I'm feeding the machine. I hear that a lot, too. I tell them "Every day is my olympics" and have a good laugh with them. ;D |
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Post by Ouch on Sept 8, 2008 19:24:59 GMT -5
Another great stereotype is you either work in the gimp-field, computers or a Call Center, which I do the latter. lol So, guess I'm feeding the machine. Yeah, I guess I'm feeding the machine as well ...but maybe we need to make an effort to branch out...how 'bout... ...military? ...give us some guns, and we'll have our own crip spec ops team... |
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Post by Claire on Sept 8, 2008 20:51:57 GMT -5
Zilch here so far, and neither paralympicsport.tv, nor universalsports.com, are working for me. Urgh. On the up-side, one of our members is currently in Beijing and I wish him all the best! I haven't heard from him in a while, but I saw his name on the Canadian paralympic team roster and was very excited.  |
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Post by Claire on Sept 9, 2008 8:41:49 GMT -5
I've written a blog post with 6 different websites where you can view live and/or recorded video of the 2008 Paralympics in the English-speaking world: Paralympics Coverage. Hope that helps! |
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Post by charlene on Sept 9, 2008 9:57:35 GMT -5
Pretty good coverage here, too. You can watch the paralympics all day long here...  |
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Post by Claire on Sept 9, 2008 11:24:34 GMT -5
That's awesome! Where are you?
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Post by irishclaire on Sept 10, 2008 14:23:02 GMT -5
Coverage in the UK is really good...
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Post by brendanuk on Sept 11, 2008 5:21:41 GMT -5
The BBC has things under control.
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Post by Claire on Sept 11, 2008 6:33:58 GMT -5
I'm so happy to hear that. North America sucks!!
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Post by Ouch on Sept 11, 2008 13:15:30 GMT -5
...I wonder how the coverage is in China, itself...
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I don't know how many times people have asked me with this 'inspired' grin if I race. Then they look kinda disappointed when I say 'Only from party to party.' lol Another great stereotype is you either work in the gimp-field, computers or a Call Center, which I do the latter. lol So, guess I'm feeding the machine.
And then sometimes they just start talking about "inspiration" and that kind of shit, but not much. They are trying.
