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Beijing 2022 Paralympic Games: Arcom's action to improve the portrayal of disability in the media
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To coincide with the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games, from March 4 to 13, Arcom is encouraging the audiovisual media (TV and radio stations) to include more sports broadcasts devoted to parasport and disability players.
The Paralympic Winter Gaming will take place in Beijing from Friday March 4 to Sunday March 13, 2022. 19 athletes, including 4 guides, make up the French handisport delegation taking part in 78 different events.
Benjamin Daviet, a biathlete specializing in cross-country skiing and a five-time medalist at the 2018 Paralympic Gaming, is the Paralympic flag-bearer for this 13th edition. As a reminder, the French team was fourth in the ranking of nations in 2018 with 20 medals (7 gold, 8 silver and 5 bronze).
The Paralympic Games are open to people with physical disabilities. Tetraplegia and paraplegia, cerebral palsy, amputees, severe disabilities (muscular dystrophy), blind and visually impaired. Initially, the Paralympic Games were reserved for wheelchair athletes, before being opened up to other disabilities in 1976.
Broadcasting the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games
The 2022 Paralympic Games are on France Télévisions. For ten days, France Télévisions will show 60 hours of programming dedicated to the competition.
The competition will be shown live on France 3 every day from 6am to 11:30am. The entire event will be available to the public on the channel's dedicated digital platform.
The opening and closing ceremonies on March 4 and 13, presented by Alexandre Boyon and Vincent Gauthier-Manuel, are broadcast live from Beijing's National Stadium.
To make sure you don't miss any of the action, download the program here (pdf.).
Arcom's action to improve the portrayal of disability in the media
The results of the diversity barometer of French society drawn up by the French regulatory authority for audiovisual and digital communication, Arcom, show that for several years now, people with disabilities have been severely underrepresented in television programs.
Arcom's action focuses on three areas:
- Program accessibility.
- Representation of the disabled on air.
- Professional integration of disabled people in audiovisual industry companies.
The "Jouons Ensemble" operation
Because it takes everyone's commitment to make parasports competitions fully-fledged and known to the general public, to change the way people look at disability by presenting it in a positive light, and to encourage people with disabilities to take up physical activity, Arcom, in partnership with the French Ministry of Sport, the State Secretariat for the Disabled and the French Paralympic and Sports Committee (CPSF), organized the "Jouons Ensemble" (Let's play together) operation in 2021, designed to showcase the inspiring careers of parasport athletes and demonstrate that sport is a formidable vector for transformation towards a more inclusive society.
Since the 2005 law on equal rights and opportunities, participation and citizenship for disabled people, Arcom has gone one step further:
The rights of people with disabilities
Arcom ensures that TV channels make their programs accessible to people with hearing or visual impairments.
We also carry out awareness raising and incentive initiatives concerning the integration and training of people with disabilities in the audiovisual media, the development of accessibility quality and the qualitative improvement of on-air representation of disability and people with disabilities.
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