No media for Paralympics/Special Olympics

In our society, athletes that play basketball, baseball and football are always show on television but we hardly or never hear about athletes that compete in the Paralympics or the Special Olympics. They compete, work hard, love the sport but we never get any information from these athletes on television, newspaper, etc. Are these athletes being discriminated from our own country? I would wonder why runners from the Paralympics don’t have the opportunity to make Nike commercials or advertise their adaptive equipment. They are no different from any other person. In the U.S., television programs, such as ESPN, don’t provide live coverage of the Paralympic games nor on the Special Olympics but they are capable to having full footage of basketball games and Extreme Sports competition. I believe ESPN should show another perspective on sports and to inform people that sports like basketball could be played differently. There are many people in our society that has some form of disability and these individually have overcome many challenges in their lives. Those are the individuals that I believe should be role models for many young kids.

Michelle Gamboa Kin 332I