Paralympics 2012 Discussion Thread

dc8900

At least it's back to the live feed now

KelvinS1965

Kind of makes you wonder why we should bother watching it on TV if they think that 'tweets' are acceptable.

They had all sorts of studio claptrap on this morning when the woman's marathon was on and didn't show hardly any of it. It's meant to be a program about sport, not a program about people talking about sport.

dc8900

But to be fair, it's not Channel 4's fault but rather OBS who is providing the live feed.

It's stupid logic that OBS thinks people would not want to watch the last event of the Paralympics live and fully covered!

dc8900

And he takes the gold!!!!! Woohoo!

Now time to focus on Shelly Woods!

dc8900

"If they want to do that, they can do that, it doesn't bother me" David Weir on other racers working together to undermine him

Also, he said he didn't know where he finish line was, hence why he didn't properly celebrate when  he crossed the line

dc8900

and Shelly Woods takes the silver!

gamingboy

Great to watch. Dave's interviews are always good. Says it like it is.

loz

In fairness to OBS and C4, whilst there were 147 countries that took and hence paid for live coverage of the Olympics, only a paltry 16 counties are showing the Paralympics live and hence the budget is very significantly less, and something has to go.

dc8900

Yes that's true but odd decision to cut one of the last main events of the day bar the closing ceremony

KelvinS1965

Great to see David Weir and Shelley Woods getting medals, even if it was only the last 30 seconds we saw. Worth the wait just to see that.

Wheel chair rugby still to go...

Hoping the closing ceremony is good tonight, not a big fan of Coldplay, but no doubt there will be other artists too.