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Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 07:35 pmThe Paralympics is going so awesomely, ParalympicsGB currently in a good second place (behind China, naturally) with 22 golds, 29 silvers, and 23 bronze medals. TV coverage is on Channel 4 rather than BBC, and while I'm still not completely happy (no coverage of rowing, archery, sailing amongst others) the commentators don't witter on inanely like many of them did during the Olympics.
If you're in one of those countries whose Paralympics coverage is so failtastic it could be in danger of compromising future Games bids (you know who, the same country whose Navy I had to prod on Twitter cos they hadn't congratulated their double medallist, a wounded veteran who was regarded by many as one of the Navy's best ever swimmers), you can watch online at www.paralympic.org. Also I've found the Telegraph to be the best online coverage, I've been using their reports to link to a lot on Tumblr.
Unfortunately I'm not going to the Paralympics :( I did have an offer from a friend at work to see wheelchair rugby - this workfriend is the brother-in-law of Mandip Sehmi, one of ParalympicsGB's rugby players - but it was too much to rearrange at short notice, and our department will be half-empty this week as it is. But, a couple of other people (who don't have relatives who are Paralympians) are attending, so I'm looking forward to hearing from them about their Paralympics experiences.
If you're in one of those countries whose Paralympics coverage is so failtastic it could be in danger of compromising future Games bids (you know who, the same country whose Navy I had to prod on Twitter cos they hadn't congratulated their double medallist, a wounded veteran who was regarded by many as one of the Navy's best ever swimmers), you can watch online at www.paralympic.org. Also I've found the Telegraph to be the best online coverage, I've been using their reports to link to a lot on Tumblr.
Unfortunately I'm not going to the Paralympics :( I did have an offer from a friend at work to see wheelchair rugby - this workfriend is the brother-in-law of Mandip Sehmi, one of ParalympicsGB's rugby players - but it was too much to rearrange at short notice, and our department will be half-empty this week as it is. But, a couple of other people (who don't have relatives who are Paralympians) are attending, so I'm looking forward to hearing from them about their Paralympics experiences.
