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]>
Reply-To: laura welti <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: The Paralympics represents apartheid in sport.
To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Howe" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To:
>> <[log in to unmask]**AC.UK<[log in to unmask]>
>> >
>> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 2:16 AM
>> Subject: Re: The Paralympics represents apartheid in sport.
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>> http://www.**peterharrisoncentre.org.uk/**David_Howe.html<http://www.peterharrisoncentre.org.uk/David_Howe.html>
>>>
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>>> On Behalf Of Keith Armstrong
>>> Sent: 02 September 2012 05:18
>>> To:
>>> [log in to unmask]**AC.UK<[log in to unmask]>
>>> 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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