Is it just me or has anyone else noticed the complete lack of coverage being given to the Paralympics.
Did anyone know that the cycling team won 5 golds today? If it had been Hoy, Wiggins, Remero et al the press would have been ******** themselves with glee.
At present Team GB are second in the table behind China with 34 medals, 16 of them golds, which is fast approaching their able bodied counterparts but the news is treating them as nothing more than a foot note.
Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze TOTAL
1 China 16 21 16 53
2 Great Britain 16 11 7 34
3 United States 10 5 11 26
4 Ukraine 8 5 10 23
5 Brazil 8 4 5 17
6 Australia 7 8 11 26
6 Russia 7 3 9 19
8 Spain 5 9 6 20
9 South Africa 5 0 1 6
10 Germany 4 10 8 22
Hardly a lack of coverage, I am seeing plenty. Radio 5 has loads of coverage, but I wish they would explain what they mean by “200 metres CP3” so I could understand what was going on (something to do with Cerebral Palsy I believe). Pressing the red button on Freeview offers highlights, the BBC website has medal results on the front page of the news just like the Olympics the other week, all the papers I have read (and I get to read most papers most days) have had regular coverage, and not just in the sports pages.
