# Coverage of the Paralympics?

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**Created:** [August 21, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coverage-of-the-paralympics/632167 "2012-08-21T15:02:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coverage-of-the-paralympics/632167/1 "2012-08-21T15:02:31Z")

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First check out this brilliant ad for the games from the UK’s Channel 4. Gives me chills everytime I see it

[Channel 4 Paralympics - Meet the Superhumans](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKTamH__xuQ).

Do other countries show much. Luckily I can watch Channel 4 so will see some at least.

Really looking forward to it. LOVED the Games in London and hope that the city/country will come out and support the next group of athletes to go for gold in their city.

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**Author:** ![Coustralee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Coustralee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coustralee)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coverage-of-the-paralympics/632167/2 "2012-08-21T15:37:46Z")

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think we’ll be getting a reasonable amount in australia on the govt station and its digital one… couldnt be any worse than what the commercial network dished up with the games

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**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coverage-of-the-paralympics/632167/3 "2012-08-21T17:30:52Z")

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The last Paralympics was shown in the US on Universal Sports, which I think now is just NBC Sports or whatever they call it. I would guess they will show at least some of the events there. I’ll watch the same events if I happen to catch them as I did for the Olympics, which would be mostly swimming.

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**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coverage-of-the-paralympics/632167/4 "2012-08-21T18:42:02Z")

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> [@Edward\_The\_Head](#):
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> The last Paralympics was shown in the US on Universal Sports, which I think now is just NBC Sports or whatever they call it. I would guess they will show at least some of the events there. I’ll watch the same events if I happen to catch them as I did for the Olympics, which would be mostly swimming.

Universal Sports is a different channel from NBC Sports Network (which used to be Versus, and I think Outdoor Life Network before that). It may be its own channel now, but at one point, it was only available as a digital subchannel on NBC stations (which meant, among other things, that AT&T U-Verse refuses to carry it under its “we don’t carry subchannels” policy).

As for 2012, most of the coverage will be online. However, NBC Sports Network will have four one-hour shows (September 4, 5, 6, and 11, at 7 PM Eastern), and NBC will have a single 90-minute show covering the whole thing on September 16 at 2 PM Eastern. (The 90-minute show is how NBC usually covers the event; I remember the one from 2004.)

The online coverage will be on the “U.S. Paralympics” YouTube channel, consisting of 10 “video highlights packages” each day, as well as at [USParaylmpics.org](http://USParaylmpics.org).