RTVE will broadcast the Paris Paralympic Games. The good news, with two months left until its start – from August 28 to September 8 – was made official by the public entity this Thursday. They will be the seventh of this century that the Corporation will offer uninterruptedly after those of Sydney, Athens, Beijing, London, Rio Janeiro and Tokyo.
The soap opera is over. For months, the Paralympic world had been very concerned because RTVE had not reached an agreement with the company Enjoy Television, which was the one that bought the rights from the International Paralympic Committee to broadcast the Games in Spain.
The final figure has not been disclosed. What we know, as published by VozPópuli, is that Enjoy was asking for 2 million euros compared to the 61,000 that RTVE paid to broadcast the Tokyo 2020 competition. “abusive and disproportionate” amount as a complaint by the Spanish Paralympic Committee since that figure would have meant that Spain would pay the most expensive television rights in all of Europe. Until Andrew Parsonspresident of the International Paralympic Committee, interceded.
Finally, there is an agreement and the Spanish will be able to follow the exploits of the Paralympic athletes, whose expedition will be around 120 (the classification system has not yet been closed in all sports), through Spanish public television. Until early July There are still places to fill in wheelchair tennis, judo and weightlifting. In the middle of the month, the CPE will make the complete list official.
Large coverage
Every afternoon, Teledeporte, with a studio open until approximately 11:00 p.m., will offer the most notable events, with interviews to the protagonists carried out by two teams of special envoys, as well as a summary program of the best that happened during the day. It will be presented by Frank Robert, assisted by collaborators from the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE).
The team of narrators, who will begin their broadcasts first thing in the morning, will be Julia Luna, Amat Carceller, Mario Ojuel, Javier López, Eva Aguilera, Lourdes García Campos, Ramón Carreras and Arseni Pérezamong others
Competitions in athletics, swimming, wheelchair basketball, table tennis, cycling, canoeing, boccia, taekwondo, triathlon, and those in which more athletes qualify will be broadcast.
In total, Spain has participated in 13 summer Paralympic Games and has achieved 651 medals, more than 50% of them in swimming. The goal in Paris is to surpass the 36 in Tokyo three years ago.
