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Embarrassing: Military now being used to fill empty seats at London Olympics

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Follow Your Team: Canadian Paralympic Committee Announces London 2012 Paralympic Games Coverage

Opening and Closing Ceremonies and daily highlight shows available across broadcast and digital platforms, including first-ever Paralympic Games with multiple live streams

OTTAWA, July 23, 2012 /CNW/ - Now it will be easier than ever to follow your Canadian Paralympic Team as they strive for gold in London August 29 to September 9, 2012!

The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) is pleased to announce its broadcast agreement with Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium and its partners to provide Canadian coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games - in addition to the live, up-to-the minute Team Canada results, photos, videos, schedules and news that will be available on www.paralympic.ca every day of the Games.

"We are extremely pleased with the broadcast coverage plan for the London 2012 Paralympic Games," said Henry Storgaard, CEO of the Canadian Paralympic Committee. "The Consortium and its partners are providing more hours of coverage in Canada than any other previous Paralympic Summer Games broadcaster. It is important that these performances are available so Canadians across the country can watch and cheer some of Canada's best athletes!"

"We are very happy to share the stories of Paralympic athletes with Canadians during this all-important time for amateur sports," added Adam Ashton, President, Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium. "We know the Canadian public will be eager to cheer on Team Canada as they take on the world in London."

Online Streaming

For the first time in history, Canadians can watch live multiple online streams of Paralympic Summer Games throughout the 12 days of competition. Five digital streams will offer a total of 580 hours of live coverage. Three feeds will offer daily uninterrupted coverage of swimming, wheelchair basketball, and athletics, while two additional channels will cover a range of sports and a will show a "best of" coverage from the day. All digital channels can be accessed from CTVParalympics.ca and RDSparalympiques.ca.

In addition to the live streaming, the Consortium's digital coverage also includes a comprehensive video on demand and Paralympic news library available online and via mobile platforms.

Television

Daily highlights will be broadcast from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. EST showcasing the day's performances, medal winners, athlete interviews and event features. Complete coverage of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies will also be available on several networks including TSN2, Sportsnet One, RDS, and RDS2. A complete television broadcast schedule will be published in August.

Additionally, two of the features from the Consortium's Difference Makers series will feature Paralympians. Hosted by Rick Hansen (English) and Chantal Petitclerc (French), the series asks elite athletes to reveal inspiring stories of those who made a difference in their lives.

Website and Social Media

Supporting the online streaming and television broadcast initiatives will be athlete biographies, competition updates, results and photos on both Paralympic.ca and CTVParalympics.ca/RDSparalympiques.ca.

In addition, the CPC partnered with the Consortium earlier this year to create its London 2012 Paralympic Games promotional campaign, Super Athletes. The Super Athlete spots are a dramatic and edgy look at some of Canada's best Paralympians in short vignettes identified by the nickname of the featured athlete. Examples include: The Shark, The Heat, The Professor and The Pit Bull. To view the entire library of Super Athlete videos visit www.Paralympic.ca/superathletes.

Canadians can also stay connected through the CPC's Twitter and Facebook accounts @CDNParalympics and facebook.com/CDNParalympics.

The Team Canada Today Newsletter will be produced and available for download on the Canadian Paralympic Committee's website each and every day of the Games. Users can sign up for the newsletter distribution here: http://paralympic.ca.../2012-News.html.

About the Canadian Paralympic Committee

The Canadian Paralympic Committee is a non-profit, private organization with 46 member sports organizations dedicated to strengthening the Paralympic movement. The Canadian Paralympic Committee's vision is to be the world's leading Paralympic nation. Its mission is to lead the development of a sustainable Paralympic sport system in Canada to enable athletes to reach the podium at the Paralympic Games. By supporting Canadian Paralympic athletes and promoting their success, the Canadian Paralympic Committee inspires all Canadians with a disability to get involved in sport through programs delivered by its member organizations.

Follow Your Team:

www.paralympic.ca/london2012

www.facebook.com/CDNParalympics

www.twitter.com/CDNParalympics #London2012 #GoCanadaGo

www.youtube.com/CDNParalympics

as far as i am concerned the real olympics begin when the guys start competing , they are truly inspirational people.

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No, but I also don't live in Vancouver and did't really care... I watched the hockey, but they were all pros. The only good parts of the olympics are when professional athletes are involved, the rest is just crappy unsustainable sports that no one cares about the other 206 weeks that cost the host cities hundreds of millions of dollars the taxpayers will eventually have to foot.

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I am going to disagree 100% with this mind-bogglingly inane statement. When the Olympics began, the Modern ones anyway...the only athletes allowed to compete were amateurs. In MY opinion, when the professionals started infiltrating it, the Olympics as the world knew it for years were completely ruined.

One of the greatest Olympic moments of all time, the "Miracle on Ice" involved amateur athletes, I'd wager anything if they were all NHL players, it wouldn't have been anywhere near as special or memorable.

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I think to be honest I was more speaking about how the Olympics are usually the crowning achievement for a lot of the non-professionals...and for someone to sit there and say "no one cares" is incredibly disrespectful to the gymnasts and skiers and figure skaters just to name a few that train all of their lives for that one shot at Olympic gold medal glory. Professional athletes get paid for what they do outside of the Olympics...these kids don't have that luxury.

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Ohhh the glory of winning a ski-dancing medal, or a kayaking medal, or a curling medal, or a horse jumping medal... what a terrible thing to disrespect. These kids don't have the luxury that the pros do because they chose to get good at a sport that no one is willing to pay to watch outside of the olympics.

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It kinda ruins the sense of competition if you don't allow people because they're too good at a sport.

"Sorry professional athlete, you're too good, we want less talented athletes to compete".

Devoid of any sense.

Maybe they should have a "less talented than professionals Olympics" for them to compete in? I wonder how many would watch.

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Are you really this dense? I just said, and reiterated...that when the Olympics began there WERE no professional athletes...The "professionals Olympics" are the sports these incredibly overpaid interlopers compete in. The Olympics, up until 1988, were strictly non-professional. Maybe you ought to do a little research on a topic before you make yourself look like a buffoon discussing it.

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