After an especially long wait for this summer’s Olympics and Paralympics, this year’s games will be historic in more ways than one — for the first time ever, the Paralympics are coming to prime time.
On Wednesday, NBCUniversal announced that they will air a whopping 1,200 hours of the 2021 Tokyo Paralympics, with over 200 hours of events available on NBC, NBCSN, and the Olympic Channel.
In a recent statement, U.S. Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland said that NBCUniversal’s decision to dedicate a historic amount of time to Paralympic programming is “truly something to celebrate” and will “bring the incredible feats of our Para athletes into more American homes than ever before.” This summer’s extensive coverage of the Paralympic Games
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