TV networks discriminate?!

The Paralympics is similar to the Olympics, but for elite athletes with varying physical disabilities. It occurs shortly after the Olympics, and in the same city. Athletes compete in number of sports including archery (my fav), cycling, football, powerlifting, shooting, swimming, wheelchair basketball, and wheelchair rugby just to name a few. For more info go here.

So here is my beef.

They are not on tv. At least around here. But the Olympics are on the air basically 24/7 and on multiple channels! Oh and you can't forget about the reruns. I don't have anything against Michael Phelps, I mean he is an amazing athlete, but seriously how many times did they need to air his press conferences, and his winning swims?

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Ithinknot!

I don't care about seeing his winning swim that earned him his 8th medal, or Shawn Johnson and Nastia Luikin's gymnastic performances at 1, 2, 3, and 4:00 AM on like every channel. When I couldn't sleep it would have been nice to have variety.

But I digress.

In Europe the Paralympics are aired regularly. Not as much as the Olympics, but still something. Every night on the news the daily results would be mentioned, and stories would be published on them in the newspaper's sports section. Or at least that's how it was when I was there 5 years ago.

So what is going on in the US? Do they just not care? Well it's discrimination then in my book!