The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic organizers established a aim of offering reside broadcast protection of all 22 sports activities within the Paralympic Video games. They achieved their aim in a technique, that protection will likely be reside, embody extra whole hours than ever earlier than, and embody three sports activities that beforehand weren’t coated reside: Wheelchair Fencing, Para Powerlifting, and Para Taekwondo. Sadly, in distinction, three sport disciplines is not going to be coated for the primary 3 days of their competitions, apart from highlights. Paralympic sitting volleyball is considered one of them. The others are Para Archery and Capturing Para Sport.
After receiving this details about the Paris 2024 broadcast plan, World ParaVolley had been working in cooperation with representatives from the Worldwide Paralympic Committee and different sources to search out potential options among the many media rights holders from international locations competing in sitting volleyball. We’re grateful to the rights holders that may present their nation’s matches in a modified manufacturing for reside stream. Sadly, the final remaining hope to realize further monetary and manufacturing help for manufacturing and broadcast of all matches ended final week. With out further rights holders in a position to cowl the fee and supply the manufacturing and operations logistics wanted, we should regrettably verify that the plan shared by Paris 2024 and in place for manufacturing by the Olympic Broadcasting Providers (OBS) of the Paralympics doesn’t embody protection of sitting volleyball on the times 29-31 August (Preliminary Pool Play).
We perceive the overwhelming disappointment that this information brings to you. We share the profound disappointment and concern that many key matches is not going to be proven to our world viewers. World ParaVolley’s worldwide tournaments usually prioritize reside streaming, and we want our normal mandate of exhibiting all matches reside might be utilized for Paris 2024. The IPC, rights holders, and OBS labored to attempt to obtain whole protection of the three Paralympic sports activities not included within the Paris 2024 whole protection plan. Sadly, we don’t management all features of this example.
We perceive lots of you wish to know what, if something, you are able to do to help your athletes and attempt to change the state of affairs. We encourage you to observe the social media accounts of every nationwide federation and Paralympic committee competing in Paris 2024 Sitting Volleyball as many are sending press officers who’re reporting from the entrance view and behind the scenes.
Competitors info, together with schedule and outcomes might be discovered on a devoted World ParaVolley web page: https://worldparavolley.org/paris-2024-paralympic-games/
The IPC has additionally revealed a listing of every rights holder by nation: https://www.paralympic.org/paris-2024/information/where-to-watch
On behalf of our worldwide technical officers’ staff in Paris, and the numerous volunteers and nationwide federations all over the world who contributed to the qualifying pathway occasions in help of Paris 2024 Sitting Volleyball, we want all competing nations one of the best for a profitable Paralympics expertise.
