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paralympics 2021

The 2022 Beijing Paralympic Games are coming up on March 4 and there are a ton of ways to watch it live if you live in Canada.

There will be five competitions at the games — para alpine skiing, para ice hockey, para biathlon and cross-country nordic skiing, para snowboarding and wheelchair curling — all of which will feature Paralympians from the Canadian Paralympic Committee.

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One of Canada's most decorated Paralympic athletes has expressed her disappointment that her home country doesn't pay its Olympic and Paralympic athletes equally.

Swimmer Aurélie Rivard from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, has won five gold medals, two silver medals and a bronze in a decorated career spanning across three Paralympic Games — London 2012, Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and now the Tokyo 2020 Games.

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Team Canada's quest for gold medals doesn't stop with the Olympics — there are 128 Paralympic athletes also competing at the highest level in Tokyo and they're already making the country so proud.

Canada's first medal at the 2021 Paralympic Games came early on the morning of Wednesday, August 25, just a day after the competition's opening ceremony. Plenty more medals have since followed — including the team's first gold medal — as Team Canada looks to best its record from the 2016 Rio Summer Paralympics (where its athletes won 29 medals).

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Talk about a busy schedule! Although being an athlete is a full-time job for many of the Team Canada Paralympians, others have completely different careers when they're not competing on the world stage.

While Canadian Olympic athletes who make the podium can actually make up to $20,000, Paraolympians actually don't get any financial compensation for winning, the Canadian Paralympic Committee has confirmed.*

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The 2021 Olympics have come and gone, and it's now time for this summer's next amazing international sporting event. If you're wondering how to watch the Tokyo Paralympics, here's everything you need to know about viewing the Games.

From the opening ceremony on August 24 to the closing ceremony on September 5 and everything in between, CBC will have daily broadcasts on TV of the action from Tokyo.

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