Around 680 hours of coverage from 13 sports will be live streamed on 15 High Definition (HD) channels on the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) website Paralympic.org during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
Coverage will also be available each night of the games on RTE where Mark Rohan will be among the analysts guiding us through the performances of the Irish athletes.
RTE’s coverage, like the Irish team is being supported by Allianz Ireland.
“We’re really excited that during Rio 2016 we will be live streaming 72 hours of sport each day across 15 channels,” said Craig Spence, the IPC’s Director of Media and Communications.
“It will mean that fans from around the world can either watch the Games on TV or on Paralympic.org.”
The live stream, which will have English commentary, will be available in around 240 territories on Paralympic.org and in around 190 territories on Dailymotion.com/Paralympics.
As well as the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, athletics, track cycling, football 5-a-side, football 7-a-side, judo, powerlifting, sitting volleyball, swimming, table tennis, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair tennis will be live streamed.
All other sports will feature in the daily highlights which will be streamed at 20:00 and 03:00 Irish time each day, as well as two news shows, shown at 07:00 and 14:00 each day.
The IPC will also upload athlete interviews and other original content to the Dailymotion channel.
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