The International Paralympic Committee has agreed a partnership with video-sharing platform Dailymotion to deliver live streaming of the forthcoming summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The IPC has selected Dailymotion to provide the streaming services which will result in around 680 hours of coverage from 13 sports being live streamed on 15 high definition channels on the governing body’s website, Paralympic.org.
The live stream, which will have English commentary, will be available in around 240 territories on Paralympic.org and in around 190 territories on Dailymotion.com/Paralympics.
As well as the opening and closing ceremonies, athletics, track cycling, football five-a-side, football seven-a-side, judo, powerlifting, sitting volleyball, swimming, table tennis, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair tennis will be live streamed.
All other sports will feature in the daily highlights which will be streamed at 4pm and 11pm BRT each day, as well as two news shows, shown at 3am and 10am each day.
The IPC will also upload athlete interviews and other original content to the Dailymotion channel.
Craig Spence (pictured), the IPC’s director of media and communications, said: “Strategically Dailymotion is a really good choice for the IPC. Half of their user base is located in Asia – the location of the next three Paralympic Games.
“Although the IPC has strong broadcast partners in South Korea, Japan and China, we hope that using Dailymotion’s publisher network during Rio 2016 will help the IPC to build on that for the Games to come.”
The 2016 summer Paralympic Games will run from September 7-18.