http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/07/celebrating_60_years_of_paraly.html en-gb 30 Mon 28 Dec 2009 14:27:53 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/07/celebrating_60_years_of_paraly.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/07/celebrating_60_years_of_paraly.html?page=17#comment6 thank you for all the cover of the paralympics i know the other tv chanels have not botherd with it .it is important to some of us to see what can be achieved by pepol with physically and mental disabilitys when you have family and freinds with disabilitys. so thy can see what thy can achieved if thy try hard to over come ther disabilitys. i have seen some of the other coments on the blog and if thy were disabled i think thy would see things in a diffrent light regards thaks once again Sun 14 Sep 2008 15:45:29 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/07/celebrating_60_years_of_paraly.html?page=14#comment5 The biggest question about the Paralympics is still whether anyone other than the UK takes them seriously.By that I mean does any other national broadcaster cover them in any depth other than the BBC?Regards,Eduin Mon 01 Sep 2008 21:06:04 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/07/celebrating_60_years_of_paraly.html?page=11#comment4 I loved the live online olympics coverage on the BBC Sport website. It more than made up for a rainy summer. For me, it really was the best show on earth.But now I want more......please can we have the same coverage for the paralympics. I will be equally interested and equally captivated by it all, just as long as the coverage is there. Mon 01 Sep 2008 11:52:04 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/07/celebrating_60_years_of_paraly.html?page=8#comment3 Only when the BBC devotes equal TV coverage to the Paralympics will I believe that the Games are being taken seriously. Fri 22 Aug 2008 22:06:14 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/07/celebrating_60_years_of_paraly.html?page=5#comment2 How disappointing not to see even a tiny bit of the Synchronized Swimming today. I know the Russians won and we came 14th, but wouldn't it have been lovely to see our girls do just a little bit. Like G Austin above, please consider ALL Sports fans not just the chinese who don't make it. I have watched any number of events that don't particularly interest me to support our GB Team, so it would have been lovely to see Jenna and Olivia do their bit. Mon 18 Aug 2008 19:28:50 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/07/celebrating_60_years_of_paraly.html?page=2#comment1 Dear BBCPlease consider ALL sports fans in your Olympics broadcasts.Let e explain. We keep seeing, over and over again, the same story about the Chinese hurdler. He has a injury, he's out of the Olympics, we've heard the story - please drop it now.On the other hand. We have a gold medal from the cycling pursuit team yet we've yet to see even one replay. Nothing. It's so disproportionate.Four British men win a gold and the repeats are all about a Chinese athlete who's won/done nothing at this Championships.I'm not a cyclist but it would have been nice to see a replay of a race where ELEVEN WHOLE SECONDS were taken off the world record.The Olympics is about sport, not about things that go wrong. Please replay sporting excellence and PLEASE STOP sensationalising one-off bits of information that is not about sporting excellence.G Austin Mon 18 Aug 2008 12:10:23 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/07/celebrating_60_years_of_paraly.html?page=0#comment0 There is such a rich history of the Paralympics it's easy to gloss over some of the trials and tribulations of recent times. In 1980 the BBC covered the games from Arnhem and it was this that inspired me to my career as a Paralympian. But the reason the games were in Arnhem instead of Moscow was that the Soviets refused to acknowledge sport for people with disabilities. Then, having condemned the Soviets the US managed to leave 1/2 of the athletes in limbo in 1984 when the 'wheelchair' Olympics was cancelled at short notice leaving the games to be rescued by Stoke Mandeville.So it was with much trepidation that we went to Seoul in 1988. I remember being met at Kimpo airport by my dad who was working out there at the time. He pushed his way to the front of a crowd that had gathered to greet us and announced to me "I've managed to get a ticket for the opening ceremony; they've gone nuts on it over here." This was the first inkling we had of just how big the games had become.I remember as if it were yesterday when we were lined up on the warm up track waiting to go into the stadium for the opening ceremony. You couldn't really hear much more than the traffic going past on the neighbouring highway. Then as we entered the stadium it hit you, 90,000 screaming voices. I've done it now 4 times since then and whilst each opening ceremony is special for its own different reason, Seoul for me represented the coming of age of the modern Paralympic Games. Following 8 years of being let down by the world’s super powers, the South Koreans hauled the Paralympic movement into the modern era that we see today. Sat 02 Aug 2008 19:58:18 GMT+1