Who's watching the Paralympics?

[Jilly_in_VA]

I am, for one. I like it better than the "other" Olympics for a lot of reasons....it's less commercial and the athletes seem so much more authentic, that's just a couple of them.

Last night I watched wheelchair basketball, which is one of my favorites; US vs Germany. It was a nailbiter right down to the last minutes of the 4th quarter when the US pulled it out. Literally thrills and spills! Swimming was fun too. One class I didn't quite get as all the women looked quite physically able, but it appeared it must be a class for intellectually disabled as the winner (by many meters!) appeared to have Down syndrome. She was just like any other 17 year old though, very excited to have won her heat and looking forward to the final. The table tennis match was hard to figure out for a minute or three too, until I saw one of the players walk to pick up the ball and realized, oh, he has CP and so does the other guy. It's really inspiring to watch all the athletes. I was a Special Olympics mom for years and this is even better.

[wcmagumba]

1. Where is it streaming?...

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. It's not streaming

exactly, that I know of. But it's on the NBC Sports channel and some on the Olympic Channel. Hours are weird though.

[wcmagumba]

4. Thanks, I am a cordcutter/streaming only person and I don't subscribe to the live tv streams...

so I'll look into Peacock and see what I can find....thanks to you and the other poster for your help...

[Sneederbunk]

3. Peacock.

[nitpicker]

5. I'm actually following the BBC text coverage

Wake up in the mornings, catch up as-it-happened, read about final events of the day.

Mostly from a GB perspective, but there's some other coverage as well.

[nitpicker]

6. Link to the explanation of categories

https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/paralympics/games/classification/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=essence-paid&utm_campaign=google_cpc_us_bau_hybrid_english&utm_content=google_cpc_us_bau_hybrid_en_na_na_dynamic_na&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-ej_1sHP8gIVja_ICh3Pdg7XEAAYASAAEgLxjfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

((including classifications for those with intellectual differences))

[ironflange]

7. I want to watch it, but can't

We have CBC's coverage, but our internet/TV has crashed and nobody can figure out why. The guy comes here tomorrow though.

[Jilly_in_VA]

8. I was wrong

about the swimmer (Gia Pergolesi). Like our other gold medal swimmer, Anastasia Pagonis, she has Stargardt Syndrome, which caused her to lose her central vision starting at an early age. Anastasia has also lost most of the rest of her vision, apparently. Hasn't stopped her in the least.