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The 2008 Paralympics
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Langeveldt
Soutie
Would like to see more of it.. SA have an absolutely outstanding bunch of prospects in this form who were urged to restore a bit of pride to our athletics.. Oscar Pistorius and Natalie du Toit ones to look out for..
ripper868
International Coach
Kurt Fearnley (Bloke ABC talked to during the opening cermony) is one of my mates actually. Should go gun in the events he's in (T54 class i think) 100 m, 4x100m, 400m, 4x400m and marathon. (might be one or two more in there)
Yeah...thats my brush with semi-celebrity
Yeah...thats my brush with semi-celebrity
NUFAN
Y no Afghanistan flag
I'm really enjoying ABC2's coverage so far. Ch7 should learn a bit.
Peter Walsh, Steve Robilliard [sp] and Gerry Collins are terrific commentators.
Just watched the Aussie womens basketball team beat Brazil 66-30. Now watching the tandem cycling, great stuff.
Peter Walsh, Steve Robilliard [sp] and Gerry Collins are terrific commentators.
Just watched the Aussie womens basketball team beat Brazil 66-30. Now watching the tandem cycling, great stuff.
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NUFAN
Y no Afghanistan flag
Rinette van Rensburg
The South African Paralympic team is showing they have what it takes to win medals and that on their first day of competing. Paralympian swimmer Natalie du Toit opened South Africa's medal tally with not only a gold medal but also a new world record. Du Toit bettered her own world record in the 100m butterfly earlier today. The Games officially opened yesterday.
Du Toit finished in a time of 1 minute, 6.74 seconds. She bettered her own world record with five hundredths of a second. The Australians Williams and Ellie Cole won the silver and bronze medals respectively.
The gold medal and new world record will help Du Toit forget a disappointing Beijing Olympics. Du Toit was the first disabled athlete to compete in an able bodied event that debued at this year's game - the 10km open water swim. She is determined to bring home five gold medals.
Perm
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yeah, so New Zealand have already won a gold medal. Do we get any sort of report about it on the news? Nope, just a couple of sentences at the end and no video or pictures. Useless pricks.
Apologies if we had only just won it and there wasn't enough time for a proper report.
Apologies if we had only just won it and there wasn't enough time for a proper report.
Langeveldt
Soutie
Not sure you can justify that.. There are loads of challenging, worthwhile sports that never get any airtime on the news, in any country, succesful or not..
Smudge
Hall of Fame Member
You're ****ing joking aren't you? Look, fair play to any athletes with a disability (I better use the PC term) who have made it to the games, but let's take a sober look at it - these are not the BEST athletes in the world (the fact these very games are held are testament to the fact they are not as capable as those who are at the Olympics - otherwise they'd be there).
Secondly, there's so many sub-categories in so many of the sports based on the grade of the disability (such as the NZ cyclist who won her 500m time trial in the S10 category) that a gold medal quite simply isn't anywhere near as good an achievement as a bronze in the real Olympics, or even the Commonwealth games or - **** - even a placing in a world junior championship.
Thirdly, who's to say what events the host broadcaster was covering in Beijing? There may not have been pictures available for the NZ TV channels (and bear in mind it'd be even more difficult for TV3 to get footage, considering TVNZ has the rights to both the Olympics and Paralympics.
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Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Empty rhetoric?
I would've thought you would agree with me, being the proud New Zealander you are. In a sport or event where somebody from our nation wins a gold medal, especially when said gathering happens once every four years and is a collection of the best disabled athletes in the world, it certainly deserves more than two sentences in a news broadcast. I'm not expecting a fully fledged report with a ten minute interview, but some sort of visuals and a decent story would have been nice. We should celebrate the achievements of our athletes, even if they are disabled, for winning a gold medal.
I would've thought you would agree with me, being the proud New Zealander you are. In a sport or event where somebody from our nation wins a gold medal, especially when said gathering happens once every four years and is a collection of the best disabled athletes in the world, it certainly deserves more than two sentences in a news broadcast. I'm not expecting a fully fledged report with a ten minute interview, but some sort of visuals and a decent story would have been nice. We should celebrate the achievements of our athletes, even if they are disabled, for winning a gold medal.
Somerset
Cricketer Of The Year
The US Open yesterday was the final of the women's event and as one of the four major tournaments in tennis deserved a leading story. Formula One always attracts a reasonable large group of followers and coverage should also have been important for the sports segment. I don't believe the Paralympics should have been given priority over those two events given their importance but do agree that the Paralympics should have received a bit more focus, with perhaps a clip of the event with our gold medalist.
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Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Perhaps 'priority' was the wrong word, but I've always thought that sports in which New Zealanders are competing and doing well should come before things such as tennis, golf and motorsports in the sports bulleting - events we don't usually have participants in, with the odd exception.