The Paralympic Games will begin two weeks after the Summer Olympics finish in Tokyo.
Running from August 24 to September 5, the world’s best Paralympians will compete in a variety of sporting events.
Don’t miss a single thing with this rundown of your NBC viewing options, as compiled by yahoo.com.
In February of this year, NBC Universal announced plans for 1,200 hours of broadcast coverage of the Tokyo Paralympics, including in excess of 1,000 hours of streaming across the company’s digital platforms, including NBCOlympics.com, the NBC Sports app, and Peacock.
On NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app, viewers can live stream all TV coverage. Events to be streamed digitally are: archery, badminton, boccia, canoe, cycling, equestrian, goalball, judo, marathon, rowing, shooting, sitting volleyball, soccer five-a-side, swimming, table tennis, track and field, triathlon, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby, and wheelchair tennis.
As well, Peacock will stream medal matches in several sports, including men’s and women’s wheelchair basketball, women’s sitting volleyball, wheelchair rugby, and marathon races.
According to NBC Universal, their TV networks will also broadcast the Paralympics throughout the two-week event, similarly to how the Olympics were broadcast.
NBC, NBCSN, and the Olympic Channel will all carry both live and tape-delayed coverage.
NBCSN will be live at the opening ceremony on Tuesday, August 24 as well as at the closing ceremony on Sunday, September 5.
In addition to the ceremonies, NBCSN will air coverage of the Paralympics from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. ET daily throughout the Games.
Extended hours of coverage and replays will be available for viewing on the Olympic Channel, with the full schedule yet to be announced.
NBC will also air Paralympics coverage during primetime, with the competitions intermixed with athlete interviews, highlights, athletes’ backstories and training, plus much more.
Paralympic coverage will also prioritize accessibility for its viewing audience.
Closed captioning and video description services will be available for all TV broadcasts.
While the expanded coverage and viewing options for the Games are long overdue, we are excited to watch these Paralympians strive to do their best, showing the global audience that all abilities can reach for gold.
