2012 Paralympic Thread

[Mart!n]

There wasn't one, I don't want to step on anyone's toes feel free to delete if necessary, but I thought might as well start one up its opening night at 8pm on Channel 4, I reckon the sports coverage is going to be pretty crap with commercials every 15 mins.

[Ramz]

Looking forward to the opening ceremony tonight! I know the adverts won't be ideal but it's nice to see Channel 4 taking this seriously and almost clearing their schedules for it. I have pretty high hopes for their coverage!

[Ramz]

20 mins in and we're already on the second break Hopefuly there will be none during the ceremony itself.

There are two channels an sky and streaming on channel4.com that will be advert free so that's promising!

[Panda]

Thanks for starting the thread Martin. I meant to but I've been very busy with other things and have just started a new job so I haven't been online very much.

Looking forward to watching this. Hopefully Channel 4 won't cock it up but as Ramz said, it's good to see them taking it seriously.

[raliverpool]

I feel it is a good time to remember the Channel 4 Athletics Presenting "legend" that is Ortis Delay:
www.dailymotion.com/video/xkswky_ortis-deley-presenting-masterclass_fun

[Ramz]

Bit meh so far, great to see Stephen Hawing and Gandalf but the Olympic Opening Ceremony sat the bar far too high and without the commentators I would have had no idea what was going on...

One break so far which was a shame but at least they squeezed it in when nothing was happening.

[Mart!n]

I don't think I'm going to be watching much of the Sports action this time round, the commercials will probably kill it for me. The introduction to the countries is going to take forever, I'm just listening to it in the background now.

[Ramz]

They seem to be really turning up the music when a Calvin Harris track comes on...

[suedehead]

Channel 4 have said that they are showing fewer adverts than normal but I can't help feeling this will put people off watching the sporting action. Apparently C4 bid £9m to show 150 hours of coverage against the BBC's £3m for 50 hours. After the success of their Olympic coverage, maybe the BBC regret not putting in a higher bid.

[Mart!n]

I wonder if Seb Coe recycled the same speech from the Olympics.

[Panda]

No, he didn't.

[Ramz]

It did take a while to get going but from after Paralympic GB entered it got pretty amazing, the last hour or so especially!

So far so good from c4.

[Ramz]

Paralympics GB score there first medal of the games as Mark Colbourne takes silver in the kilo time trial!

[Ramz]

And the Velodrome gives Paralympics GB it's first gold as Sarah Storey laps Anna Harkowska in the C5 Women's Individual Pursuit!!!!

[Mart!n]

Hannah Russell got Silver in the Swimming, and Ben Coulter got bronze in Judo

[Elmer]

To much chatter on C4. We don't want to just see British athletes. I want to see as much action as possible.

[Mart!n]

Jonathan Fox has won Gold in the Swimming.

Some of these competitors are so competitive, I don't know how they do it, with their disibility, my heart goes out to them.

[Elmer]

The Chinese girl in the backstroke was awesome. Without arms and the speed she was going was amazing.

[Ramz]

Aug 30, 2012 18:54:03 GMT 1 Elmer said:

To much chatter on C4. We don't want to just see British athletes. I want to see as much action as possible.

Watch the three special paralympic channels. They stick with the action for the whole match/race and are advert free.

[Ramz]

This GB vs Germany basketball game is amazing! I think I might prefer this to most of the Olympic sports!