Team UCan2: August 2012

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Opening Ceremonies Were Amazing!

Yesterday several of us from the Canadian Sailing Team and other country' sailors traveled to London to attend the Opening Ceremony. It was magical and such a rush to walk in as Team Canada. Stephen Hawkings rolled right past us from the stage and the Royal Family was also in attendance. John stayed back in Weymouth to celebrate with his family. A good time was had by all.
Tomorrow is our practice race in preparation for Saturday's big start.

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Broadcast Coverage for Paralympic Games

Tower of London sporting a new look

Canadian Paralympic Committee Announces Complete Broadcast Schedule of London 2012 Paralympic Games Coverage

CTV, TSN2, Sportsnet ONE, RDS, RDS2, AMI to share Opening and Closing Ceremonies and daily highlight shows

Television

The Games will kick-off with a two-hour Opening Ceremony extravaganza on August 29, which will be carried live on RDS2 beginning at 3:30 p.m. EST (plus an encore presentation on RDS on August 30 at 6:30am EST), and later in the day at 9 p.m. EST on TSN2 and on AMI with described video. CTV will also air the Opening Ceremony on Saturday, September 1 at 1 p.m. (2 p.m. in Saskatchewan).

Online Streaming

As previously announced, for the first time in history, Canadians can watch live multiple online streams of Paralympic Summer Games throughout the 12 days of competition. Five digital streams will offer a total of 580 hours of live coverage. Three feeds will offer daily uninterrupted coverage of swimming, wheelchair basketball, and athletics, while two additional channels will cover a range of sports and will show a "best of" coverage from the day. All digital channels can be accessed from CTVParalympics.ca and RDSparalympiques.ca.

A schedule for these digital channels will be announced next week.

Friday, August 24, 2012

Windy Weymouth

Like the "Flying Nun" look?

Hi Everyone,

The team arrived safe and sound. Yesterday we put the boat together and today we headed out for a nice sail. The winds picked up in the afternoon and the rains started. Tomorrow's weather calls for rain and wind but it will be nice after that (hopefully!).

It was nice to see all the teams from the other countries (80 sailors). The athletes' sailing village is nice and has everything we need: a gym, cafeteria, massage, dentist, chiropractor....you name it. It is a 3 hour bus ride from Heathrow.

As you can see, Weymouth/Portland is known for its wind.

Stacie

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Off to the Paralympics!

Our training is complete, practice boats are put away, bags are packed, and the team flies to London this evening. Upon arrival we will be transported to the athletes’ village in Weymouth and given our Team Canada gear. Once we rig our boat, it’s on the water for several shake down sessions in preparation for racing. Then it’s Showtime!!

Our racing runs September 1-6.

Visit our team website for recent local media coverage links and updates: http://www.teamucan2.blogspot.ca/ and through www.teamucan.ca.

The IFDS website will provide some of the best coverage: http://www.sailing.org/paralympics/london2012/index.php

Paralympic TV (you tube site) promises video: http://www.youtube.com/user/ParalympicSportTV as does Paralympic.org: http://www.paralympic.org/.

The Brit focussed RYA site also promises video. http://www.rya.org.uk/skandiateamgbr/Pages/default.aspx

There will also be updates on the Canadian Sailing Team facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canadian-Sailing-Teaméquipe-canadienne-de-voile/196992790349209

Thanks to everyone for your support and well wishes.