Disability Sport Wales
Chwaraeon Anabledd Cymru
The Federation of Disability Sport Wales (FDSW) is a pan-disability National Governing Body of Sport Which aims to promote and develop quality sports opportunities
PARALYMPICS ON THE BBC
BBC television coverage of the Paralympics will be more extensive than ever before, action will be streamed live for six hours a day through the red button and via broadband.
There will be live terrestrial/red button coverage at the weekends and the opening and closing ceremonies will also be broadcast live including the handover to London moment on the final day
Daily midweek programmes on BBC2 between 1900 and 2000 will be available on high definition (HD) and on iPlayer.
Clare Balding and Steve Cram will present the programmes from the Bird’s Nest stadium.
There will be more live coverage than from Athens 12 different sports in all and there will be two BBC roving crews to record additional material.
Athletics, swimming, cycling, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby will comprise the backbone of the BBC’s TV coverage throughout the Games, but will be supplemented by coverage of other sports, particularly those in which Paralympics GB have strong medal hopes like wquestrian and wheelchair tennis.
GB have two football sides competing and adaptive rowing is a new Para sport.
Commentators and reporters include Paul Dickenson, Bob Ballard, Eddie Butler, Ronald McIntosh, Nick Mullins, Eddie Butler, Phil Jones, Rishi Persad and Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes.
They will be joined by ex-Paralympians Tanni Grey-Thompson, along with Ade Adepitan and Marc Woods as guest commentators.
All the coverage will be streamed on the BBC’s award-winning Disability Sport website, where there will also be a daily blog written from Beijing as well as reports and photos on all the main action, results and medal table bbc.co.uk/paralympics.
BBC Radio 5 Live will bring all the news throughout the Paralympic Games with a dedicated team of reporters in Beijing. There will also be live commentary from some key events featuring strong British interest.
Other programmes covering both Paralympic stories include: News, Olympic Diaries, Blue Peter and Radio Five Live to name just a few.
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