Opening ceremony is nearly over. The last leg is on SOON.What sports are you watching tomorrow?
those scars are fucking sick ngl
im miiiiiiiigin
>>144058606Depends on the schedule, swimming, cycling, and archery definitely.
Who is that blonde qt?
>>144058650faggot commentator said she was american(?) I might have misheard
>>144058650Oksana something according to our presenters, she's a Ukrainian who competes for the USA
La la la la la la la laaaaaa
>tfw no qt paralympics gf
those prostheses look like they go all the way up to her fanny, no wonder she was wobbly
>>144058669Quite like this bit.Oooh, they made the agitos, nice
>>144058650https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oksana_Masters
>>144058672>tfw no deaf, dumb, and blind quadriplegic autism gf
Based Ravel
Blades look so cool, hope I lose a leg
>>144058669I don’t remember, was Pistorius a Paralympic, or wasn’t there a big controversy about his prosthetic legs giving him an unfair advantage compared to regular people
>>144058707Just take up motorcycling
Rehm could genuinely beat the olympic gold distance, the olympic long jump this time was low quality
>>144058683
>>144058720Pistorious was in the paralympics, but also qualified for the olympics, think he only made heats or SFs though. The IOC and world athletics said it was fine for him to compete.
Daphné cries again, euthanasy when ?
What's this piece of music now? It's nice
THE BALLOON!!!!
This is absolutely kino. What the hell, is it always like this?I’m so used to seeing twerking during these big event ceremonies
>>144058691Yeah that's her. She's cuter from far away and by night kek.
>>144058720He was a Paralympian, but because of his success and his charisma, there was a campaign to let him participate in the regular Olympics too. I don't think it ever happened, but they did let him do a couple of able-bodied events and he came fourth or fifth if I remember correctly.
>>144058752kino
this was atleast 8.4 times better than Olympic Opening Ceremony.
>>144058752Grandiose
>>144058720No, his controversy was that he killed his girlfriend.
>>144058774It's sovlful, and although the boats were quite a nice idea you can't beat a parade.
>>144058752Much better than the 20000 hour trip up the river from the Eiffel tower in the olympic ceremony.
that's a nice ceremony you got there, it would be a shame if someone was spewing bullshit while it runs
>Ellie has a history degreegonna fall in love with a midge again fuck
This shit is fucking kino man I can't stop tearing up
It was insanely hot as fuck earlier today, so I’m glad for these people that this is happening now at night
>>144058803Amazing how that haircut tells me all I need to know about her opinions
>>144058691>Née en 1989 en RSS d'Ukraine, Oksana Masters est victime des radiations de la catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl. Née sans tibias, une jambe plus courte que l'autre et six doigts à chaque mains — cinq d'entre eux étant collés —, elle est abandonnée par ses parents devant la porte d'un orphelinat. Pendant les premières années de sa vie, on l'ampute finalement des deux jambes. En 2020, elle explique dans un reportage de The Players Tribune qu'elle a été violée de ses cinq à ses sept ans, vendue au plus offrant par les employés de l'orphelinat.What in the fucking fuck. Poor girl.
>>144058803She's shutting the fuck up for now and it's so nice
>>144058795>>144058796Letting the abled take a boat cruise, forcing the paras to move themselves in a paradecruel in a way
>>144058796I thought I was the only one who found it too loooooooong.
>>144058803at least she's sort of milfy, rob walker is just worthless
>>14405881927C in bongland today
>ALERT ALERT OLD WHITE MAN AND OLD WHITE WOMAN!!!!WHO WILL THEY PASS THE TORCH ONTO???
A GYPSY HAS JUST STOLEN THE TORCH AND LEGGED IT
>>144058823She's not even the only american paralympian who is an orphan adopted by an American in the 1990s.It seems to have been weirdly common in the ex-USSR to jump abandon disabled children and then in the 1990s they let yanks adopt them
I like that /para/ is a no shart zone, definitely an overall higher quality of posting
Sci-Fi
>>144058823yeah I call bullshit on 80% of that story
When is the downie wrestling or midget hurdles?
>>144058822She's even worse than what you picture.
>>144058828Walking down the Champs Élysées is 100 times cooler than sailing on the shit water Seine imo
>>144058849That old woman was the second most titled woman in olympics history, with 26 medals
KINO
Which event has the best looking tards?
>>144058872One-Legged it you mean?
>>144058873empathy for the disabled is very much a western europe only thing
>>144058606Imagine retard olympics
>>144058892Probably the track events
>>144058874Burgersharts are only getting live coverage for the first time this paralympics - and it's all on a cable channel not main NBC still.Previously NBC just aired highlights on delay.But yeah less of them posting means less shitposts
table tennis player, nice
>>144058823We didn't need to know that anon.
She's crying again
>>144058898SOVL
>>144058905That'll be in 4 years
IT'S LIGHTED ANON!!
>>144058905You never heard of the special olympics?
It's Lit
IT'S LIT
FINALLY
IT'S STARTED LADS
>>144058875>>144058898>>144058924>>144058863I like the balloon, I think France should keep itI want one where I live too, nicely illuminated at night
>>144058881There's no downies in the paralympics mate, you're thinking of the special olympics.There's some midget powerlifting next week.
>>144058924>>144058929fake cauldron with fake fire
What the fuck is that musicstop it stop it stop it
>>144058917She must be crying all the fucking time in her daily life.
>>144058823It gets worse lmao
The balloon's gone up
Balloon go UP!
UP IT GOES ANON!
IT FLIES
LET THERE BE ALOT OF KINO THIS PARA FRENS!
ya like jazz?
>>144058892No tards in the paralympics, you're thinking of the special olympics.>>144058874You summoned them!
>>144058942cope seethe dilate mald touch grass etc
absolutely terrible singer get """"him"""" out
Right beddy bye time for me lads, see you tomorrow.
holy shit dancing wheelchairs
D.I.S.C.O.!
>>144058940There have been discussions about keeping it alreading, I believe Anne Hidalgo (mayor of Paris) asked for it
BORN TO BE ALIVE!Too bad they didn't bring Patrick. Is he dead?
>>144058957best of luck to your countrymen and I hope the finns don't get anything again
first balloon flight was in france iirc, dunno if that's related
>>144058905That's called the special olympics and is a different thing
>>144058957Based
The original was so much better, fuck this queer retard
>>144058990Purely coincidental
>>144058942 is fake, therefore it's opinions are invaliid
>>144058990It's not
next song is probably patrick sebastien at this point
F U N K Y
>>144058989same to you fren, lets hope the finns try their best (not)
>>144058999Yeah she's ruining the song
>>144058981well, it became a huge tourist attraction, shitloads of people trying to get pics or trying to paint it, stuff like that
>>144058990Yes in that very garden
>>144058874/sp/ has enough nice posters that sometimes we can all come together in one thread with absolutely no shitters, and it's a beautiful experience. I bet I have enjoyed posts you've written in other threads too.
>>144058968Damn, how did I see so many older (as in retiree pensioner age) athletes earlier if they have to go through qualifiers
not liking this new musical direction Big Thief is taking desu
>>144058976Bye lad! Will soon go to sleep myself =~=
>>144059024oh, that's cool
How is this still not over, gotta be the last song
>>144058990nahhh
>>144058898"Hanquinquant" is one of the coolest surnames I have ever seen.
Who's ready for /lastleg/? I hope Johnny Vegas is back
>>144058994It's every year now, Tards
>>144058981it's really only a matter of time until it falls on somebody if they keep it long-term
>>144059022It's quite normal for a host city to keep some tokens like that, it's part of their history after all.I used to live in Lausanne, they've made "olympic city" a major part of their branding
night para frens
>>144059013F A B U L O U S
>>144059043I really like the Olympic mascot this time around, idk if it’s just me
>>144059053Yeah, the London olympic park still exists and is pretty nice.
the sideways wheelchair make this feel a little corny
>>144059059IT LOOKS LIKE A FACE ANON O_____O
>>144059054gnite, see ya tomorrow para fren!
That was pretty great, nice going frogs
>>144059053apparently, hidalgo wants to keep the olympics rings in the tower too
BORN BORN BORN
>>144058606The fuck is Goalball? Very generic name btw
Sexo theme
Goodnight anons, see youProbably gonna buy some tickets, I'll post pictures in the threads
>>144059013Fucking much better overall than the previous ceremony on the river.
>>144059073non ça par contre c'est idiot
Good stuff, well done for being infinitely less pozzed this time.
>>144059079It's a sport for blind people with no able-bodied equivalent
>>144059073Yeah nah, fuck this shit. The balloon ok, not the rings.
>>144059073That would be quite unaesthetic imo
AND NOW.... DAPHNE BURQI WILL JUMP FROM A HELICOPTER UNTO THE OBELISQUE. WE WISH HER GOOD LUCK
>>144059061Le voiture de Phyrge
>>144059073Can we keep the crackheads and migrants out too ?
>>144059087please do! looking forward to see them!
off to bed too lads, that was very comfy viewing in a comfy thread
what sites will be streaming once the games start?
>>144059097kekneed some footage with audio of this mad woman tonight
>>144059097Other Paris anons, can you see it from where you’re at?
>>144059097I'm sure she's already taken a bigger one
>>144058691>In the orphanage, Oksana witnessed another orphan girl, her best friend Lainey, be murdered. The children in the orphanage were always on the brink of starvation and malnutrition, so one night Lainey and Oksana sneaked out to get food, but Oksana slipped and hit a chair. Men hearing the noise found Lainey. Oksana managed to hide but heard them hit Lainey six times. Her best friend died as a result of the trauma she received.[6]>After she turned 7, Oksana was adopted by Gay Masters, an unmarried American professor of communication disorders with no biological children.[6][11]
>>144059047>The two weeks every four years when Rosie Jones is an interesting person with worthwhile contributions
>>144059112https://www.channel4.com/ - will need a UK VPNI think NBC's streaming service has it for the USA
>>144059112channel 4 dot com
>>144059107nah, we'll send them back to you once it's overnot like they want to stay in the rest of France anyway, they'll move back by themselves
I thought it was kinda boring compared to the Olympics ceremony Maybe I'll take time to explain later I need to sleep now
>>144059115Yes just saw her jump holy shit
>>144059069It does, rather
>>144059142Where did they send them? Did they "lose them" at sea?
The last leg lads get in here
>>144059160in cities that are not Paris
>>144059167here for it lad
>>144059107Nah I've seen them enough, it's not their natural habitat here.
>>144059158I LIKED THAT CEREMONY ANON!
>>144059111No surprise the thread is 90% our and your flag
>>144059112Peacock for the US.
>>144059107The only thing I haven’t liked are the enforced lanes where the fine is a gorillion euros for using, + the fences and big wooden enclosures surrounding stuffOther than that, if the goal was to normalise the city being under military occupation, then mission accomplished.
>Rosie Jones
>>144058925Put blades on their legs
>>144059124>gay master
Alex and Josh got in on the jannie dancing again
I WANT TO BE IN THE CEREMONY TOO ANON!
>>144059124Russia is beyond depressing
>>144059275took me until now to realise why half of alex's head is red
>>144059124>beating a small orphan child to deathin a cruel, often pointless, world, that seems especially cruel and pointless. what hell hole did she come from?
>>144059282>>144059314That was Ukraine in the 1990s
>advert for wotsits, quavers and monster munchCor
>>144059073this shit could kill the eiffel tower.>>144059095upvoted. i'm from Rio de Janegro. our corrupt mayor kept our olympic cauldron and now they light that shit every olympic and paralympic games.
>>144059235Me too. You did a good 'un, France.>And all around something ancient EgyptianI'm not living in a certain river in that country when I say I approve. Also, three words, France: Yes. Very Yes.
Remember when we had to consider Oscar Pistorius? Really murdered his wife.
>>144059242The special traffic lanes are a thing the IOC demands. Oslo said no and that's why Beijing got the last Winter Olympics.https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/10/ioc-demands-oslo-drops-bid-after-over-the-top-list-of-requirements.html
>>144059396https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9dmoT9AfoI
>SNOOP FROG
>>144059235>>144059389Thanks for all your screenshots, Anons
>>144059424
>>144058905You’ve never heard of /sp/?
>>144059409Is that a new requirement? Because with it, I guess my hometown is never ever hosting an olympics even if it was always a pipe dream
>>144059424For me, it's French soul singer Beret White
>>144059444^_____^
>>144059095by the way, she also asked to keep the women's portraits in the Seine
>A bit like the matrix if the blue pill was thalidomide
>>144059468nah, I remember some leaf from Vancouver saying the IOC basically privatized severals lanes from some higway for themselves back then
>>144059515I have feminist exhaustion
>Good to have joe pasquale back on the show>The sequel to 50 shades of gray looks a bit shit
Rosie Jones has barely opened her mouth so far.
>Nice to have an australian drawing back on British TV again
>>144059290>>144059170
>>144059490I work in software
Jonnie Peacock mentioned!
>>144059712
>>144058817Wait, for LA28. I'm actually exited about your paras, if London 2012 did a lot for our para athletes, I can't imagine what it will do for yours.Contingent on NBC actually showing the sports damn live and getting sponsors to actually pull their fingers out.
IF ONLY WE HAD A FRANON AMONG US.......
>>144058817I remember either an opening or closing ceremony once where they had some disabled woman carrying the torch. She was really old and could barely walk. She fell over and dropped the torch and it was really awkward. But other people ran in and helped her up and helped her finish. That really got me when I saw it.
>>144058881>>144058892>A Yank confuses The Paras for the SpecialsTruly a day ending in 'Y'.
>>144059828I swear South Park is at fault
>>144059803>Even me, I think that that's a bit bizarreIt's going to be some catchphrase or something, but I don't know which one.
Should I get a beer or no?
>>144059847YOU'RE GOOD ANON!
>>144058917JC, I really need a translation with tape of her best bits.If I was a Frenchie crip (French chip), I'd feel pretty condescended to.
Screenshots needed of this shit
Para breaking incoming on the last leg
>>144059870>French chipThe best kind of ship <3
Need screenshots/webms of this para-breaking
>>144059922I thought I wanted to see that, but fuck me, it was creepy.
Ok, good night anons, I will see you bright and early for SPORTS
>>144059989GOODNIGHT ANON!
>>144059964You'll get nothing from me, but I looked on YouTube and I am confident it was this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbdYh-Rs8_o
>>144059964
>>144059660>>>144059290 Pretty sure they're used to these situations,they must "watch" movies with friends and so on.
>>144060053danke
>>144060053I'm speechless, this is profoundly repugnant.
>>144060053We really are the best posters.
>>144060091But, at THEE biggest event for disabled athletes? Surely, they should expect better than that. That's not very inclusive.
>>144060102It's like a cross between The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Twin Peaks.
Really wanna carry on with all you para watching lads and lassies, but I need to prepare for a job interview in the morning and my head is pounding.Therefore, I bid you all adieu. Till tomorrow!
>>144060053Yeah, no. Breakdancing is already embarrassing in itself, this is too much. Also in this category they will all end up with the same moves, spinning and push ups.
>>144060117There's no magical technology for them anon, there's audio-description and that's it, but imo it's shit.
>>144060155I literally just got a job and will be missing most of the events liveTraining starts mondaySAD!
>>144059476
>>144060053based
>>144060053holy fuck
>>144059282yes it is, but horrors such as that are way too common everywhere
>>144060053>the last leg
>>144060102why? everybody is having fun
Highlight of the opening ceremony was the Portuguese midget/dwarf whatever is least offensive doing the TSSSSUUUUU Ronaldo celebration
Para badminton is starting right now. only thing on for a bit. swimming starts in an hour though.
>channel 4 presenters are named Billy Monger and a black dwarf called Fats TimboWhat
How was the opening ceremony?
>>144064849Better than the olympic one by about 10x
>>144064855based hopefully I can find it online
>>144063182It's a great show, channel 4 started it dor London 2012 as a comedy show with some highlights as the last show of the day in their paralympics coverage.The name was referencing the last leg of a relay and also a joke at the same time. Two of the three main comedians on it are disabled. It's often very funny.It was so popular it's kept going as its own thing, plus on nightly at the paralympics.
>>144064871Supposedly NBC's streaming service has it for you. If you have a VPN and can pretend to be in the UK you might find it on channel4.com
Swimming is on soon
Watching Badminton has never been more entertaining. Keep the midgets.
>ausswims
>>144064812Kek
>>144064812Thought I recognised billy monger, he's the racing driver who lost his legs in a horrific accident aged 17
Our public service is not showing the badminton…
Is there any way to watch the events I want?I think it was like that with channel 4 for the Tokyo ones
>he thought it was over
>>144064982https://www.youtube.com/@Channel4Sport/streams
>>144065000Actually this link has today's streams: https://www.youtube.com/@Channel4Sport/featuredMay need UK vpn
>>144065000>>144065007Thanks was watching the channel4 website and it was trash, its Goalball time
>>144064976Why is this on SVT while the other was on Max? Of course SVT is better, but shouldn't Max be forced to show both?
>>144065015Watching goalball now, it's fun
>>144065022Max beats svt massively. I guess it’s because they want everyone to be able to watch it
low category swimming is one of my favourite events desu, genuinely remarkable stuff
>>144065007I was going to ask where the fuck are all the streams on the C4 website, bizarre that they're on youtube.
Goalball dj playing AVICII
>>144065082>that mega slow lad getting cheered on
I wonder if it's better to play para badminton with an amputated hand or being amputed further down the arm
holy shit this br lad turned himself into an actual fish
>>144065132He is quite good for not having arms
>>144065132>dwarf>no arms>fucked legsPoor bastard
Handless badminton is barely different these lads could compete in the normal olympics (if they were good enough)
>Already 7 streams available across badminton, swimming, goalball, table tennis and taekwondoI can't keep up!
>>144065178For me it's midget badminton
>>144065186For me it's giant badminton
these goalball birds are making me want to reactivate my fetlife
>>144065193>fetlifeI didn't know something like that existed, did you get any shags out of it?
I see are billy still refuses to give up on that hairline
>tur-key-uhFuck off
>>144065197got a marriage out of it son, lasted about as long as you'd expect
>>14406520310 minutes?
Just woke up, watching the goalball and its crowd shots and the athletes warming up with no ad breaks so much better than the regular olympics
>>144065198I think he's fit, liking the tight polo
MURDERBALL IN 40 MINUTES.
>>144065213Also 10 streams online at the same time when we had 3 for the olympics!!Fuck you Jews for selling those tv rights
damn some of these goalball turks are blind blind, like no eyes blind
>>144065213The Badminton has people actively cheering for one player, it's nice even if it's probably demoralising for the other guy.
>>144065225That's why they wear eye masks so everyone is on the same level
>>144065222Yeah, for the olympics the BBC only had 1 TV channel and 1 stream due to Eurosport.Meanwhile channel4 has 2 TV channels and everything streamed.
>>144065222Plus no annoying commentary just the arena soundsThey took this from us
>>144065234We have all the streams and commentary on each one but you'd need a VPN to watch it
Watching Bocciamania
>>144065246Are lad normally destroys in that but apparently he hasn't done that well recently
There are too many sports I want to watch swimming, goalball and boccia and wheelchair basketball
S E V D A
Golfball, besides being a meme sport, is bad to watch because the public has to remain silent to hear the ballI assume blind football is the same
all these athletic women crawling around on the floor in blindfolds and tight leggingsbloody hell
>>144065258that is why god denies you snooker
looool why is she shooting between her legs
>>144065263OI OI
>>144065260Post a webm
Brs getting smashed despite that rigged benulty at the start
>>144065264she can straighten herself against the goal and then just run backwards so she doesn't lose her bearingsthat turkish lass who does a spin move is just using the force I guess
watching cerebral palsy people throw balls more accurately than I ever could
>>144065288It always looks like they won't be able to throw it or it'll go nowhere but they're really accurate.
Oof boccia brit lad hasn’t been played a fair hand
>>144065288wait until they get to the properly fucked ones who play by rolling the ball down a ramp with their head
>>144065317It becomes almost a different sport then all about the setup angle and aiming the ramp.
Eliie Robinson is on channel 4
>>144065287The roaches look much better at shooting but I do like the OI OI
>>144065343
>>144065363Straight outta compton
Forgot how shit TV adverts are, how do normoids put up with this?
>>144065370Just watch on Youtube.
>mens 50m freestyleNone of those look disabled
>>144065343its mental how you can be born with a genetic thing that completely fucks your body but leaves your movie star face alone, fancy the arse off her I do
>>144065363cute>>144065370Watch it on youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/@Channel4Sport
>>144065376S10 is the least disabled category, essentially. Swimming goes from S1-S10 where S1 is most functionally restricted and S10 the least.(There's also S11-13 for blindness and S14 for mental issues).
>>144065376S10, probably minor physical impairment like one leg is weak or something
>>144065358>much better at shooting>cause 3 penalties
>>144065389Did they shoot a ref?
>boccia has the most viewers currentlyIt is quite good to watch, makes me want to try bowls desu
>>144065384>>144065386Ah I see>>144065389It’s clearly rigged. I meant their shots are much more powerful>>144065403Play pétanque
>>144065410>Play pétanquepétanque isn't a thing here, I don't live in Provence.
NEW WR
>>144065403are david brings in the crowdsfunny that he's actually aging really well
any streaming sites like cracksport showing paralympics? TV coverage over here is 0
>>144065422He's 35 but looks 25
>>144065423UK VPN + https://www.youtube.com/@Channel4SportOr maybe it works without a VPN, idk
.01 off the world record in women’s swimming
>>144065421>S9 swimmer beat all the S10sFucking hell
>>144065427Tried it. It doesn't show any active streams even on homepage.
ladies table tennis is some bullshit, couple of mildly wobbly norgs versus our girl falling over her tiny tim crutch
>>144065440You need a VPN then, shows 9 streams for me
>>144065440If you have a vpn try France tv, there’s 10 concurrent streams and no commentary anyway
Unfotunately high S number swimming is just as boring as able bodied swimming
>>144065455S11-13 is blind/partially sighted people, they sometimes get a bonk on the head with a stick to signal the end of the length.S14 is mental impairments
lmfao he just fucking flinged it
muderball in 8 mins>>144065467>go for attack>miss>your ball just goes for milesSeems too risky to be worth it
>>144065384>S14 for mental issueswhat like being a schizo?
>>144065475It's stuff like short term memory issues, low iq (but not drooling level) - things that will impact the ability to train to a plan etc
didn't know this was a sport, we used to play this as kids
>>144065483With blindfolds and all?
>>144065483did you use blindfold or jsut played while seeing?
I'd like to try goalball one day but I'm not keen on having to blind myself>>144065467The face of a broken man
>>144065471that was honestly the very first thing i'd seen of this whole paralympics having just realised it was on and thought he was such a spack that that was just something that happens despit ehim supposedly being at the pinnacle of disabled bowls
How come S14 swimming didn't get cut when they got rid of all the other intellectual disability sports after the dago basketball debacle
>>144065501It did, there were no disability events in Athens 2004 at all, they brought a limited number back for Beijing/London but there are way less than before the ID basketball scandal.
>>144065509>no disability eventsMeant intellectual disability of course
these spackers are way more accurate with the bowls than their throwing style makes seem possible
Do disabled horses compete in the horse events?
surely armless should be an entirely separate categorymust be an utterly massive disadvantage
>>144065521not even just the decreased ROM, lion's share of people with CP also have tremors and/or epilepsy, mental how they keep themselves controlled long enough to throwfucking scary strong though, knew a lad back at uni who would demolish every bone in your hand when he shook it if you condescended to him at all. he beat me at badminton once, I was drinking a lot back then
Any website stream that *does not* need VPN? It may be any of those ad infested ones
>>144065535oh turns out he's one of the best ones theremental stuff. basically shagging his way through the water
>>144065535It's functional classification, they're meant to be roughly equivalent despite the varied differences
>>144065545It's a yank channel and only 1 stream: https://olympicstreams.co/2024-paris-paralympics-live-stream/1/
>>144065535swimming gets a bit pot luck once you're down to the low numbers, everyone's colossally fucked in very different ways. Remember years back there was this one israeli in S2 or 3 who had one arm with a few fingers and absolutely nothing else, not even stumps. Swam on his side looking like a sunfish and destroyed the competition
>>144065559what's s1 like if that was 2 or 3?
Does the paralympics have S1 swimming?
>>144065571>>144065575https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssUXH54qU48
first murderball match startingGB vs Australia
>>144065571no arms or legs, they flap their lips like a horse to swim
murderbaaaaaall
>In wheelchair rugby, players are assessed into seven classes: 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, and 3.5 points. The lower level points indicate less functional ability and the higher points indicate greater functional ability.>Only four players are on the court at any given time. The total points on the floor for a team cannot exceed 8, but this maximum is increased by 0.5 points for every female on the court.
>>144065618being a woman is a disability
I can't recall, why the fuck did Pistorius do it again? Wasn't he quite well liked before the murder
>>144065655south african
>>144065655Nobody knows, I think he still maintains he thought he was shooting at home invaders
What happened in the boccia?
>>144065501>dago basketball debacleExplain
>>144065618Women have shit upper body strength compared to men I suppose
>>144065689https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_ID_at_the_2000_Summer_Paralympics>The team at the centre of the row was the Spanish basketball team, who won the gold medal after beating Russia in the final despite fielding a team mainly composed of athletes with no intellectual disability.
Who has the best paralympic coverage atm? I can't even find a murderball stream
harvey price
>>144065697Channel 4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2WMFTCRynU
>>144065662Didn't he shoot her through the toilet door? It sounded like a planned murder desu>>144065696That's mental
>>144065676our boy won, as per
>>144065696>the normies competing in the retard category beat genuine retards on roids
>>144065704based thanks
>>144065703Hello you cunt
>>144065712Does that link work without a VPN? I have no idea if C4 is region locking their youtube streams
>>144065697nbcolympics is streaming most everything
I always forget channel 4 is publicly owned but commercially funded, it's like a mini-BBC if the BBC had adverts
the lats on kearney bloody hell
>>144065727I was actually watching channel 4 on the website but it was showing swimming, I didn't know they had streams on youtube. Without vpn though it will say unavailable
>>144065746For some reason channel 4 is only showing their two TV channel "streams" on their website - from the Channel 4 and More 4 channels. The other streams are all on youtube.
they should let murderball players punch each other
>>144065696>and removing all events from the following Games for athletes with intellectual disabilities.[Damn. Totally fucked it up for everyone else
Any website stream that shows everything that does not use vpn? Olympic streams only have one stream so no
>>144065871Yeah, reading it looks like Athens and Beijing had no ID events, and then London brought them back for swimming and athletics only - i.e. not team events
business idea: paracalcio storico
>>144065925What
why are the greedy french not showing all the events for free on the paralympics site?
this ain't it for me lads, guess I only care about winning, and our retards winning don't do it for me.
Love a bit of murderball me
Track cycling is on
Why are the jannies dancing?
>>144065938I have a bridge to sell to you if you're interested.
>>144065934if you've not seen calcio storico you're missing out
>>144065942Are you really the same person who keeps coming here thinking it's the special olympics?
>>144065942Not a true sports enjoyer
look how fat that italian is compared to our girl in track cycling
kek those handsI shouldn't laugh
No sitting volley stream?
>>144065997Doesn't look like it, maybe they don't film the early rounds
This is overwhelming lads, there's so much stuff on, it felt like the Olympics just built up but this is all out from day one.
>>144066034It's only 10 days instead of 16, and has more events due to the classifications. Swimming and athletics are both running most of the games here, where they only overlapped 2 days at the olympics.
>>144066052also olympics started out with horseshit and airguns and other stuff you could safely ignore
>>144066052>>144066069That explains it
where are the illegal sites?
how do i win paralympics?
>>144066083first I have to hit you with my car
>>144066083Be China
>>144066083You're morbidly obese so qualify
>ram the woman off the court so she gets a penaltynew meta?
is there fencing where they have the swords attached to their legs?
>>144066133Nah, it's just wheelchair fencing
>>144066140fuck, reckon that would be weird to win fights by stabbing your opponent's asshole
>>144066140They should have wheelchair jousting
Why do they call it the paralympics? Not all of them are paralysed.
wheelchair fencing should be someone in a wheelchair directing an ablebodied fencer with a blindfold like a stand
>>144066150You can compete if you have glasses
>>144066150para is greek for alongside
MAN DOWN
>>144066150It was originally just for paralysed war veterans after WW2 and called the Stoke Mandeville Games.The para bit stands for parallel now, as they're alongside the olympics.
Malay has overtaken the argentinian on the track
Does anyone have a robust steam for the badders (badminton)
where are you guys watching? there will be no live coverage in greece
>>144066194Channel 4 + VPN
>The Soviet Union, hosts of the 1980 Summer Olympics, were invited to host the 1980 Paralympics. However, disability sport was non-existant there, and they passed; notoriously, a statement was issued denying the existence of any disabled people in the country (labelled "invalids" by Soviet officials)Communism is so grim
>>144059124so, uh, about those "heroic Ukrainian soldiers" anon...
>>144066200https://www.youtube.com/@Channel4Sport + VPN for non-brits
>>144066215Everyone is disabled under communism
>>144066215>not a single disabled person in the country>grimThat’s a utopia lad
>>144066228Based channel 4 with the multiple live streamsBBC could never
>>144066264BBC did it for the previous Olympics
I’m watching wheelchair «rugby» which just seems to be about running (heh) from one end of the terrain to the other. and why are they bouncing the ball on the ground like it’s handball or basketball?
>>144066264We're just lucky the americans don't care, or else Discovery would have it.
>>144066274Have to pass or bounce every 10 seconds so you can't just keep it in your lap the entire time
>>144066215all the eastern block countries have like 3-4 athletes with the exception of ukraine which was made to close down all the soviet asylums by EU human rights observers, and uzbekistan which is copying iran's benevolent islam campaign
>>144066274It's not really rugby based, the name was just chosen because they crash a lot
FREED FROM DESIRE
WR
must be a bit shit being the team's megacripple knowing you're only there so they can get three blokes with decent upper body control on the court
Sitting volleyball is the race walking of the paras>>144066337Seems like handball but with rugby’s point scoring system. I assume they can’t pass forward
>>144066358grim
Handbikes look a bit mental, I can't imagine doing long distances with your arms though.
>>144066358China guaranteed gold-silver there
>>144066397Scary as fuck that, get a neck cramp just trying not to crash
>>144066397It's gotta be easier than wheelchair marathon
>>144066397if they weren't fuckin expensive I'd get one myself, must be a great upper body workout
One leg cycling
>>144066397I built two of these for my work, to be donated to some veteran at their «race for the troops» event (this was in the US)Thing cost 7,5k dollars and the all terrain electric version was 13,5kWas very fun to test on the parking lot
>all the announcers at the Olympics are BritsMakes it feel like it's ours desu
>>144066461the paras unironically are
>>144066466It's quite funny how the olympic flame is lit in some big fancy historic ceremony in ancient ruins, and the paralympic flame is lit in a playing field near wendover in the pissing rain
>>144066532Stoke Mandeville used to be my hospital, it's a shithole and Aylesbury is a dump too.
USA USA
>>144065249I just put it on now (YouTube stream) and the very first thing I saw was my favourite Paralympic sport of one-legged cycling.
How bad is China gonna mog the rest of the planet in Paralympics this time?
>>144066589They have a team larger than even the French, who get automatic qualifier spaces due to hosting
>The paralympic agitos has been on the arc de triomphe since the start of the summer (like the olympic rings on the Eiffel tower)>IOC bitched and moaned over this and this is why the arc wasn't shown in any olympics shots of the cityFucking really?
>>144066640up until this year paralympians had to hide any olympic rings tattoos they had, even if they were former olympians. the IOC are absolute bastards about their IPs
>>144066691>the IOC are absolute bastardsCould have stopped there lad
Do you guys think star players in wheelchair rugby chads pull tail?
CAM ON DAPHNE
>>144066732>new world recordbased
New WR
>>144066732>>144066766She (C2) also beat the Japanese rider who is C3 (i.e. less impaired)
Just got home bros. What's on?
>>144066785Track cyclingWheelchair BasketballWheelchair RugbyBocciaBadmintonTable TennisTaekwondo
>>144066794also goalball
our guy is getting btfo in taekwondo
Hello is this /brit/lympics?
What category are cycling atm? They look fucking slow
>>144066861Yeah basically /brit/lympics & friends
>>144066941>26mphAlright it's not that slow
>>144066794>BocciaOdd that it's not in the Olympics just Paralympic.
>>144066941>>144066970Just realised it's a fucking qualifying session not an overall time trial like a mong so no wonder they were laid back when Ghana were shit bless them.>>144066975Bowls is at the Commonwealth Games, they should have it at the Olympics imo
Basketball at the moment 48-23 for GB
>>144066975It's the only sport that doesn't have an Olympic equivalent I believe>>144066981Love it when the bowls world champs is on BBC
wtf, the front one is just a huge regular track cyclist carrying the blind guy around?
>>144067004kek I was just thinking that, the pilots look hench. I don't know how it works
Tbh I know nothing about the boules sports. Except for what I learned after playing Disco Elysium kek.
>>144067013>lob balls and try and get them close to a target ballThey're all variations of that, bowls they're weighted and you roll them, in others you throw them.
>>144067004Just had a look, the pilot is an experienced, sighted track cyclist, the 'stoker' is the blindie at the back. So it's a team effort really but a shit person at the back will still make a difference.
>>144066981>Bowls is at the Commonwealth Games, they should have it at the Olympics imoBowls is pretty comfy. But yeah outdoor bowls on the grass is better like the Commonwealth Games.
We choked the cycling
this "goalball" is fucking shit
>>144067062>>144067051your pilot is too big to last 4km
Too many refs in those goal ball matches
just saw a badminton game between a girl with mobility issues against a girl missing an arm, can't take paralympics seriously when most of the disabilities aren't equal.
why don't these blind fuckers ever bounce the ball
>>144067097If you bounce it in the wrong way its a penalty for the opponent
>>144067097literally as soon as they finally bounce one it goes in for the first time in a year
>>144067107the way they just did it to score is what i meantdoesn't seem too bleedin difficult
>>144067053Insane shot
>>144067159what's their disability?
>>144067159>who run bartertown?
>>144067159We're doing shit btw the Germans have overtaken us about 5 times and the bloke on the back has gone to sleep
>>144067167Not finishing
I can certainly see the appeal of C3 boccia, getting an able bodied servant to build your ramps for you and telling them to hurry the fuck up
>>144060267Well that's what I was expecting. I just wanted to know it was available. A professional AD service provided them and not some 'mom and pop' thing.
>>144067221>both get DQ'd and we lose 0-0
>>144066215It was only a few tournaments ago that they made it a rule that anywhere that hosted the Olympics had to also host the Paralympics. Before, you didn’t have to have them if you didn’t want to.
>>144067221wonder if any of them are proper slave driving cunts
Any streams?
>>144066994>It's the only sport that doesn't have an Olympic equivalent I believeGoalball doesn't either
>>144066727They won’t even need to play wheelchair rugby to do so; they will all just have gigachad personalities. I would probably hate them if I met them.
>>144067013It's all variations of "get close to the target".>Petanque - uses heavy metal balls you throw on sand>Boccia - soft balls you through/roll on hardcourt>Lawn bowls - weight bowls you roll on grass>Curling - skim stones on ice
>>144067053>1644783129353.webmsaved AS FUCK.
>>144066975boccia was invented specifically for gigadisabled people who can't play anything else>>144067274murderball also>>144067283I met a few of them working at a sports hall when i was a teenager, they're generally arrogant but not in a cunty way. v v fatalistic though, two of them seperately told me they hope they get their neck broke and die midgame
>>144067294For me it’s palet>throw a metal puck on a wooden board
>>144066727>>144067283Wheelchair anon here. The Brit is right, before settling down I could pull 3-4 girls a year as a low quadriplegic in a wheelchair. It is about self confidence and being funny. Just learned today that my pregnant wife has a viable fetus inside her btw
>>144067319congrats mate.
> Paralympic athlete missing in Paris for nine days reported to police>A Rwandan female volleyball player vanished from near the team’s base in a northern suburb of Paris last week
>>144067319least fertile frog, congratulations can you still get a cob on or did you give her the old turkey baster
>>144067339safe country amirite
NEW THREAD>>144067364>>144067364>>144067364
>>144067340Yea my todger still salutes pretty hard. It's the shooting that doesn't work so we had to find a workaround
>>144065423You guys better step your fucking game up for LA28.
>>144065501It did, all ID sports were banned for 10 years and it ruined Dan Peppers' career. He was one of the ones that were able to compete at 2012, but he wasn't at the peak of his career then, so wasn't able to medal. ID sports still haven't made a major comeback. The whole thing is so shameful.>Thanks, Spain
>>144066448Jesus, why so fucking expensive?
>>144067368Thanks
>>144066691we can thx samaranch for that
>>144067314for me it's on le lead board
