Tokyo Paralympic 2020 / Eurosport India secures rights to broadcast Games.

Zoom News : Aug 11, 2021, 08:33 PM

Indian enthusiasts can seize all of the stay motion of the country's para-athletes all through the upcoming Paralympics with the Paralympic Committee of India awarding the rights to broadcast the Games to Eurosport India.

The Tokyo Paralympic Games, scheduled to be held between 24 August and 5 September, can be the first time Eurosport announces a worldwide multi-recreation occasion in India.


"Eurosport can be our reliable Media Broadcasting Partner to proportion the interesting minute to the minute stay telecast of the approaching Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games," PCI, secretary-well-known Gursharan Singh stated in a release.


India can be fielding its biggest ever contingent this 12 months with fifty-four Paralympic athletes taking part throughout 9 carrying disciplines.

Some of the athletes encompass World No three and World No 2 Sumit Antil and Sandeep Chaudhary in javelin; Manish Narwal (10m air pistol), Singhraj (10m air pistol) and Avani Lekhara (10m air rifle, 50m air rifle) in capturing and Mariyappan Thangavelu withinside the excessive jump.

Thangavelu can be the flag bearer of the Indian team.


Badminton will make its debut on the Paralympic Games, with a view to function as many as 5 Indian shuttlers withinside the men's category. Pramod Bhagat, Manoj Sarkar, Tarun Dhillon, Suhas Yathiraj and Krishna Nagar along with the women's doubles pairing of Parul Parmar and Palak Kohli.

The insurance of the Paralympic Games will begin on 27 August with the men's and women's archery occasions at Yumenoshima Park Archery Field.

The Eurosport feed can also be LIVE at the discovery+ app.


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