Interesting point there Laura, but would it surprise you to know, I am currently staying in a Holiday Inn in London, as you may know Holiday Inn is supporting The Olympic and Paralympic Games but I can't access the additional Channel 4 Paralympic Channels via the tv in the bedroom and have to watch it off a laptop - I foresaw that this might happen, so spent £60 to hire a laptop from my University - one good thing though this hotel has only recently opened, and the Owners took the decision not to charge for internet access, although it is patchy!

Every cloud has a silver lining - apparently!

Becky.

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    Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 16:06:26 +0100
    From: laura welti <[log in to unmask]>
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 Subject: Re: The Paralympics represents apartheid in sport.
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Hi Maria

Yes, it seems many other countries are not really giving the paralympics
any tv coverage.  A case of 'same old, same old' I'm afraid.

It's a real pity because the programming is/could have been available had
non-UK tv stations wanted it.  Balancing this just a tiny bit is that the
para/lympic village has, for the first time ever, been built for Disabled
people rather than has been the case previously where the villages have
been built to non-Disabled people specifications then stripped (and
marginally adapted) for the Disabled athletes once the olympics has
finished.

However, if you want to follow events, the tv channel providing the  UK
coverage also has footage of quite a few of the events on its website.
Just go to www.channel4.com.

They have live coverage and recorded events (via their 'on demand'
programming), with links available on the home page.  For recorded events
follow the links to 4oD.

 Hope this helps you - the performances have been incredible this year,
with new world records being set right, left and centre!
Laura
On 3 September 2012 13:45, Maria Barile <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi David,
Without doubts, you are right, sport, like politic, by the very nature are
exclusionary.  Whereas, I must say with much disappointment, those of us in
Quebec  are deprived from following the London event,  compared to what I
recall of the Vancouver games. There  paralympic got lots more  media
coverage.

It seems to me,  it would make sense to at least have the opening and
closing  Olympic/ paralympic  ceremonies together.  It would allow general
population to gain a different perspective. Vancouver did that a little,
and already it  achieved some recognition.

All I have seen in Quebec media about the  London paralympic is how
unprepared your transport  system has been, I think, however, that is meant
stop  those of us who complain about our transport system; interesting
strategy for politicians  in mist of a divisive election campaign .
 Maria

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 Hi,

By its very nature sport is exclusionary. It has always been based on
achieving the aims: higher, faster and stronger. Not all impairment groups
are included in the Paralympic Games and certainly not all those eligible
will have the physical talent to be involved at the highest level.
Combining the Olympics and Paralympic into one movement does not remove the
exclusion associated with high performance sport.

The Paralympic Movement is far from perfect. It is my belief that there
need to be more former Paralympians involved in the running of the movement
and the stars of London 2012 have to be encouraged to take an interest in
the movement during their time as athletes so that in retirement they can
harness their energies on making the movement better!

Best

David


Dr. P. David Howe
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology of Sport
Sport Culture and Policy Lead
Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport
School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Loughborough University
UK               LE11 3TU

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Subject: The Paralympics represents apartheid in sport.

The Paralympics represents apartheid in sport. If they really want to
address the issue of exclusion of disabled people in society, we need to
have one Olympics that includes all sports played by people who are
interested in sport. Of course for the events we have to be fair and all
contestants need to be roughly equal, so there needs to be women's events,
men's events and events with people with physical impairments.

To allow a company that is implicated in the deaths of over thirty
disabled people to be one of the sponsors of the Paralympics is
unforgivable. This fact alone reveals that the organizers of Paralympics do
not want any real positive change in society for the vast majority of
disabled people.

Much is made (by the media) of the origin of the Paralympics being the
Stoke Mandeville games, however they used to break the Glenn Eagles
Agreement and allowed wounded South African soldiers to participate in the
sports, many of the South African team got their physical impairments in
Anglo while trying to invade. This was successfully challenged by disabled
people by taking direct action in the early 1980's and the connection with
Apartheid sport was finally broken.

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