London 2012 Paralympic news
ParalympicsGB host last talent search for London 2012
By Tom Degun in London
January 28 – ParalympicsGB today held a Paralympic Potential Day at Brunel University in London which is widely considered to be the last chance to unearth potential medal winning talent to compete at the London 2012 Games. Add new comment
ParalympicsGB fear for coverage post-London 2012 after Channel 4 deal
By Tom Degun
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January 9 - ParalympicsGB have admitted they fear for the long-term future coverage of disability sport and athletes like Ellie Simmonds and David Weir (pictured) after Channel 4 were yesterday awarded the broadcast rights to London 2012.
BBC snubbed as Channel 4 awarded London 2012 Paralympic broadcast rights
By Duncan Mackay
January 8 - Channel 4 have been awarded the rights to broadcast the 2012 London Paralympics in a deal worth more than £5 million, beating off the BBC, who had shown every Games since 1980 and invested several million pounds into promoting disability sport.
Loughborough University researchers working on system to classify ID athletes for London 2012
By Duncan Mackay
December 30 - British academics are working to create a computerised testing system to help classify athletes with an intellectual disability (ID) in time for the London 2012 Paralympics, it has been revealed.
Exclusive: Payne does not believe London 2012 will sell Paralympic TV rights to Sky
By Steven Downes and Duncan Mackay
December 29 - Michael Payne, the former marketing chief for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), claimed he is very sceptical of recent reports that Paralympic sports chiefs are considering selling the rights to the 2012 London Paralympic Games to anyone other than the BBC.
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Ade Adepitan has already had a remarkable life, including leading Britain's basketball team to a bronze medal at the 2004 Paralympics in Athens, but it is about to enter its as most exciting phase as the face of Channel 4's innovative and groundbreaking coverage of London 2012, as he exclusively tells Tom Degun 
