I disagree with this take. The problem isn’t that the Paralympics are held after the Olympic Games, it’s the small break in between where people lose interest. I understand they need to do that to make events adaptive but the break is where it loses momentum. I don’t think having it before solves that issue.
It can draw its own audience. It’ll be smaller because less people are interested; that’s just how it is.
I think this would backfire. The Olympics is a great lead-in and attracts viewers who want to keep watching Olympic sports. It’s kind of like in the US how the MLS starts shortly after the NFL ends. The MLS is like, “Hey, football fans, you want to keep watching football? Well, we’re a type a football!”
This is a bad take for me. I watched the Olympics and was pretty hyped to watch more tabletennis and badminton so I was looking forward to the paralympics. The break between was too long, I forgot about it starting to be honest.
I’ve watched bits of it but the constant ad breaks, the lack of the red button to choose a sport and the hosts are a bit flat are my issues. Nothing to do when they’re on.
This would be a total logistical nightmare and would never happen, but I think the best way to keep people interested is to do the Paralympics opposite from the Olympics. For example, since this year was the summer Olympics, we should have had the winter Paralympics in February.
We would get both winter and summer in one year (like years past), but one would be Olympics and one would be Paralympics. This allows a break and could help with burnout.
Again, never gonna happen due to logistics.
Counterpoint: this year’s Paralympics tickets weren’t selling much up until the Olympics started, then people started buying tickets like crazy during and at the end of the Olympics because they wanted to keep on living the experience. It’s way easier to sell the event when the public is already in the mood than to make them care for it as a pre-Olympic event.
So we can be burned out on the Olympics instead?
Run them concurrently.
Also, have non medaling expo events that pits top performers from Paralympics and Olympics and men and women against each other.
i think one day they should do both at the same time, even tough that wouldn’t be easy to organize
Currently watching blind soccer, these people are fucking impressive
Absolutely.
I think it should be month long and they happen simultaneously…
No.
I advocate for the Olympics and Para to take place simultaneously. It’s the only way for Para to get good spectatorship. Especially the tourists who come to watch. There is simply no comparison between the numbers of tourists who come to watch Olympics vs Paralympics.
The Tour de France Féminin used to precede the Tour de France; now the Tour de France Femmes follows it. The change in order has had no effect; few still know it exists.
The Paralympics should be at least shown on tv, no, not every country gets them
Maybe a silly question, but couldn’t they simply do the Olympics and paralympics at the same time?
People are super excited to watch it, bit streams are not as readily avaiable and it’s much harder to follow everything in real time (especially if you come from, let’s say, smaller country).
*side-eyes my own*
I think the paralympics should come much sooner after the olympics. There was what, 2 weeks there where we had nothing? Everyone who traveled to come see the Olympics went home. I’m sure you’d get a lot more hype if people could extend their trip another 3-4 days and catch some of the Paralympics too.
Why?
The Olympic closing Ceremony should be AFTER the paralympics.
Bullshit I won 40 bucks Saturday night watching a re run of us vs gbr in rugby was pretty fucking stoked on that
These claims are a misunderstanding of marketing. The reality is Paralympic sports are not a draw, they do not have (as far as I know) any other televised events anywhere. Not in any serious way. The people watching are people who either have a direct interest or are continuing on from their Olympic interest.
Putting them after the Olympics means they benefit from the buzz that comes from that. It also means you can adjust existing facilities once crowds etc have died down. If you did it the other way round you’d have to set up and build infrastructure whilst the Paralympics were going on.
The answer is money. The Olympics help pay for the Paralympics. It’s that simple. They use the same venues to save money and they use the same boarding to save money. They just make adaptations to the event arenas and living facilities. That’s also why it takes a couple weeks for the next games to start. There is a lot of work that is done in between the games to make it 100% accessible for every individual attending.
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Genuine question: ppl watch paralympics?
I disagree with this take. The problem isn’t that the Paralympics are held after the Olympic Games, it’s the small break in between where people lose interest. I understand they need to do that to make events adaptive but the break is where it loses momentum. I don’t think having it before solves that issue.
It can draw its own audience. It’ll be smaller because less people are interested; that’s just how it is.
I think this would backfire. The Olympics is a great lead-in and attracts viewers who want to keep watching Olympic sports. It’s kind of like in the US how the MLS starts shortly after the NFL ends. The MLS is like, “Hey, football fans, you want to keep watching football? Well, we’re a type a football!”
This is a bad take for me. I watched the Olympics and was pretty hyped to watch more tabletennis and badminton so I was looking forward to the paralympics. The break between was too long, I forgot about it starting to be honest.
I’ve watched bits of it but the constant ad breaks, the lack of the red button to choose a sport and the hosts are a bit flat are my issues. Nothing to do when they’re on.
This would be a total logistical nightmare and would never happen, but I think the best way to keep people interested is to do the Paralympics opposite from the Olympics. For example, since this year was the summer Olympics, we should have had the winter Paralympics in February.
We would get both winter and summer in one year (like years past), but one would be Olympics and one would be Paralympics. This allows a break and could help with burnout.
Again, never gonna happen due to logistics.
Counterpoint: this year’s Paralympics tickets weren’t selling much up until the Olympics started, then people started buying tickets like crazy during and at the end of the Olympics because they wanted to keep on living the experience. It’s way easier to sell the event when the public is already in the mood than to make them care for it as a pre-Olympic event.
So we can be burned out on the Olympics instead?
Run them concurrently.
Also, have non medaling expo events that pits top performers from Paralympics and Olympics and men and women against each other.
i think one day they should do both at the same time, even tough that wouldn’t be easy to organize
Currently watching blind soccer, these people are fucking impressive
Absolutely.
I think it should be month long and they happen simultaneously…
No.
I advocate for the Olympics and Para to take place simultaneously. It’s the only way for Para to get good spectatorship. Especially the tourists who come to watch. There is simply no comparison between the numbers of tourists who come to watch Olympics vs Paralympics.
The Tour de France Féminin used to precede the Tour de France; now the Tour de France Femmes follows it. The change in order has had no effect; few still know it exists.
The Paralympics should be at least shown on tv, no, not every country gets them
Maybe a silly question, but couldn’t they simply do the Olympics and paralympics at the same time?
People are super excited to watch it, bit streams are not as readily avaiable and it’s much harder to follow everything in real time (especially if you come from, let’s say, smaller country).
*side-eyes my own*
I think the paralympics should come much sooner after the olympics. There was what, 2 weeks there where we had nothing? Everyone who traveled to come see the Olympics went home. I’m sure you’d get a lot more hype if people could extend their trip another 3-4 days and catch some of the Paralympics too.
Why?
The Olympic closing Ceremony should be AFTER the paralympics.
Bullshit I won 40 bucks Saturday night watching a re run of us vs gbr in rugby was pretty fucking stoked on that
These claims are a misunderstanding of marketing. The reality is Paralympic sports are not a draw, they do not have (as far as I know) any other televised events anywhere. Not in any serious way. The people watching are people who either have a direct interest or are continuing on from their Olympic interest.
Putting them after the Olympics means they benefit from the buzz that comes from that. It also means you can adjust existing facilities once crowds etc have died down. If you did it the other way round you’d have to set up and build infrastructure whilst the Paralympics were going on.
The answer is money. The Olympics help pay for the Paralympics. It’s that simple. They use the same venues to save money and they use the same boarding to save money. They just make adaptations to the event arenas and living facilities. That’s also why it takes a couple weeks for the next games to start. There is a lot of work that is done in between the games to make it 100% accessible for every individual attending.