^{Nobody NO he wanted his return, but w moment When NO was such needs, ON myself he showed up}

What’s up, you little and big whores, you didn’t expect me to come back, did you? *cough, cough* I mean… Hello again, after this longer than announced break, in connection with a completely different topic. First, to explain – since I am a complete lazy person who does not keep to deadlines, a summary and discussion post about the Olympics (before someone leaves me with "🤓 currently Olympics means the period between the Olympic Games" – Yes, I know, that; yes, I’m not going to follow it today") will not be:

• At first I didn’t want to do it on my own "pseudo-deadline"which I didn’t expect to achieve anyway;

• then, and even earlier, it broke the cesspool on the entire PKOl "war" between the Polish Olympic Committee and the Ministry of Sport, and I was actually waiting for the situation to develop, because every now and then some new topic worth mentioning appeared (out of which the one that pissed me off the most was the praise of Małysz (as the president of the Polish Athletics Association) for not going to the Games. Supposedly, it was about the fact that he didn’t go at the invitation of the Polish Olympic Committee, for our money, for no reason, but still…);

• and then I decided it was too late and the idea died.

(and now that I’m correcting this text to make it at least a little more legible (yes, it was EVEN WORSE), I’m afraid of how tragic the previous one would look)

But in return, yesterday, as part of a magazine before the event, I found out that Polsat (on TV and Polsat Box Go) will be broadcasting ^almost everything that will happen at the Paralympics (before someone tells me that it’s happening now) "it’s called" Paralympics, because the IOC is a sports organization, which means they are dicks and they forbid the use of "Olympics" anywhere in the Paralympics (that’s why this event is called Paralympics from the very beginning in English), and I think they finally stuck to the Polish name a year ago – The IOC doesn’t rule me and I don’t give a damn what they say and think), so at least from my point of view it will be very easy to watch. And since it will be, well, I thought it would be possible to make reports from this event, especially because of how it works (division into many classes, depending on disability), despite the smaller team, compared to the Olympics in Paris i Paralympics in Tokyo, we’ll still probably win a lot of medals.

Nothing has happened yet, so there are no tables. Today there was only the opening ceremony (much calmer than the one for the Olympic Games), so there is no point in talking about performances. But there are a few organizational matters…

1. Where to watch?

First of all, the rights to broadcast in Poland are exclusively owned by Polsat. Unfortunately, the competition will only be shown on encrypted channels (Polsat Sport and Sport Premium), while on Polsat Box Sport the package allowing you to watch the Paralympic Games costs 40 PLN (for 30 days). I hope that this service is only shitty on my computer (where I honestly don’t know what the problem is: not the add-ons, because it doesn’t work on a clean Edge either; rather not the computer itself, because that would be weird; rather not the service, because I see way too little crap about it on the internet, and on top of that the app on the phone works without a problem; most likely it’s my internet, which was sometimes less than stable, although on the other hand Polsat Box Go seems to be the most susceptible to these moments of hiccups, and on top of that it breaks down for the whole day, even when the internet calms down), because if not, it’s going to be bad.

By the way, Paralympic Games YouTube channel should have live streams from all competitions (where there will be cameras. The archery qualifying session will probably be without transmission again), but they are to be geoblocked, so there is a chance that due to Polsat rights, these streams will not be available in Poland. If that happens, there is always VPN.

2. What are all these "category"?

I tried to find a simple description on the internet. Bo (no chuj I’m about to get shot…) Pabout many failed attempts in English I even tried in Polish, but unfortunately I didn’t find anything perfect and the best thing I can do is watch the broadcasts with commentary, because at least Polsat promises that it will try to accurately describe the categories of disability during the broadcasts of the competitions. And since at least some of the commentary teams will probably include para-athletes and para-unionists, these descriptions should be accurate.

And from imperfect sources:

• Is "booklet" probably the Polish Committee of the Paraolimpianwhich describes all sports, but unfortunately not equally. Some have in the section "medical classification" good description of the category, some only have "cursory stories";

• in English we have "system LEXI’which describes briefly but precisely and accurately, and also in a graphic way, practically all the categories that exist. If I remember correctly the YouTube streams from Tokyo, I think they used it there too. The only reason I don’t call it an ideal source is the fact that on the Polsat website with the schedule of performances by Poles, they use categories that are not there;

• in English on the website The Games Olympic I found a description of classification in sports, but it is also more of a narrative description, not very accurate;

• (in English) paradoxically, page Paralympic Games is the least useful. This link, with a list of all the subsports, is the best I found.

These two sections took me so long that I forgot what else I wanted to write here. So it’s time to skip the performance section, because there can’t be one today, and let’s get to the plan.

Schedule of performances on 29.08.

At the beginning, Polsat has a schedule of performances on the entire Paralympic Games (next days on the next pages). I also don’t know if they have a version of the site that updates during the day with the results of Poles (I hope they do, or they will make collective posts quite early, because I don’t feel like doing it creatively (instead of reproducing), but they should at least have articles with a daily schedule, like this one. In the latter they will probably also mention sports without Poles.

Track paracycling

• 13:41, individual race* (there’s a slight catch (of the 🤓 variety) regarding individuality, because in this particular case there are two competitors: the proper one, visually impaired; and the tandem driver, who also gets a medal. I don’t know about the pedaling aspect) over 4,000 meters, qualifications – Karol Kopicz;
• 16:59, 4000 meters individual race, for 3rd place – Karol Kopicz if necessary;
• 17:13, 4000 meters individual race, final – possibly Karol Kopicz.

Here are two interesting facts. The first, positive, Karol is our youngest representative, only 17 years old. The second, negative, in Tokyo our representative in this discipline lost the bronze medal as a result of doping being detected.

Paraswimming

• 9:59, 100 meters backstroke (S2), eliminations – Jacek Czech;
• 10:54, 50 meters freestyle (S10), eliminations – Alan Ogorzałek;
• 11:11, 100 metres butterfly (S13), eliminations – Joanna Mendak;
• 17:50, 100 meters backstroke (S1), final – Kamil Otowski;
• 18:00, 100 meters backstroke (S2), final – possibly Jacek Czech;
• 19:41, 50 meters freestyle (S10), final – possibly Alan Ogorzałek;
• 20:15, 100 meters butterfly (S13) – final – possibly Joanna Mendak.

Para-table tennis

• 10:45, 1/8 final of the doubles tournament (MD4) – Rafał Czuper/Tomasz Jakimczuk – Khaled Ramadan/Eslam Raslan (Egypt)
• 11:30, 1/8 finals of the table tournament – Igor Misztal/Maksym Chudzicki – Aaron McKibbin/Joshua Stacey (Great Britain);
• 12:15, 1/8 finals of the doubles tournament (MD18) – Patryk Chojnowski/Piotr Grudzień – Mahiro Funayama/Katsuyoshi Yagi (Japan);
• 13:45, 1/4 final of the doubles tournament (MD4) – Ew. Rafał Czuper/Tomasz Jakimczuk – Fabien Lamirault/Julien Michaud (France);
• 17:00, 1/16 finals of mixed doubles (XD7) – Dorota Bucław/Rafał Czuper – Carlotta Ragazzini/Federico Crosara (Italy);
• 20:00, 1/8 finals of mixed doubles (XD17) – Karolina Pęk/Piotr Grudzień – Maryna Lytowczenko/Ivan Mai (Ukraine);
• 20:45, 1/8 finals of mixed doubles (XD17) – Patryk Chojnowski/Katarzyna Marszal.

Para-archery

• 1:00 p.m., classic bows – qualifying round. Łukasz Ciszek ;
• 13:00, one-piece bows – qualifying round. Kseniya Markitantova;
• 17:00, recurve bow – qualifying round. Milena Olszewska.

Parabadminton

• 9:50, group stage: Bartłomiej Mróz – Liek Hou Cheah (Malaysia);
• 18:00, group stage: Oliwia Szmigiel – Rubi Milagros Fernandez Vargas (Peru).

Bowl

• 14:00, group stage (BC3): Damian Iskrzycki – Tak Wah Tse (Hong Kong);
• 18:10, group stage (BC1): Kinga Koza – Yushae Andrade (Bermuda);
• 20:30, group stage (BC3): Edyta Owczarz – Ladamanee Kla-Han (Thailand).

As you can see, the convention with disability categories is that there is none. Some sports are described "correctly"according to the LEXI standard/system/something (like bowl Whether swimming – first the abbreviation of the discipline, then the number indicating the type/kind/strength of disability). Some have a description that I can’t find (table tennis – MD and XD are probably from "Men’s Doubles" and "miXed’s Doubles"but these numbers don’t make sense). Some don’t have any category mentioned.