Canada adds two bronze medals on Day 2

On another successful day, Canada adds two more medals, bringing the total medal count to five and tenth in the overall standings.

Bronze Medal
Caleb Brousseau for Para-Alpine Skiing, Click here To Watch his great run.
Mac Marcoux for Para-Alpine Skiing

Curling
Draw Three: Canada won 7-3 over Sweden.

Sledge Hockey
Canada won 4-0 over Norway.

You've probably seen this already but here's the latest Canadian Paralympics commercial with a powerful message, "It's not what's missing, it's what's there".

Canada's sledge hockey team battles Norway to a 4-0 win

Canada's sledge hockey team roared back to the Shayba Arena this morning to defeat one of their fiercest rivals in a 4-0 game.

Norway was the team who prevented Canada from earning a medal at the 2010 Paralympic Games in Vancouver. The Canadian squad stepped their game up defensively today, and managed to keep it scoreless through the first period.

Then, at the top of the second period, Dominic Larocque scored the game's first goal. It's his third of the tournament. Laroque seized the opportunity to score when Norwegian forward Ole Bjarte Austevoll took a penalty.

Adam Dixon, who CBC Sports analyst Rob Snoek nicknamed 'Duck Dynasty' for his long, shaggy beard, scored the other two goals before the end of the third period. (Dixon scored two goals and two assists against Sweden yesterday.)

The most spectacular goal by far was the last one scored by Marc Dorion in the final 22 seconds of the game. It was his first goal of the tournament.

With today's second win, the Canadian team tops the Group A standings, with 6 points. The United States leads Group B.

Canada has Monday off before facing the Czech Republic on Tuesday. The Czechs are currently the second-place team in Group A.

Successful Day 1 at Sochi for Canada

On a successful opening day for Canada, they were able to pick up two silvers and one bronze medals.

Silver Medals
Mark Arendz for Biathlon
Joshua Dueck for Para-Alpine Skiing

Bronze Medal
Mac Marcoux for Para-Alpine Skiing

Curling
Draw One: Canada won 6-3 over Great Britain.
Draw Two: Canada won 5-4 over host Russia.

Sledge Hockey
Canada won 10-1 over Sweden.

Below is an inspiring video on a Paralympic curler's journey to Sochi.

Sledge hockey in Sochi begins with a blowout

The first men's ice sledge hockey game was played today between Canada and Sweden. This year Canada is seeking redemption after finishing in fourth place in Vancouver four years ago. They began their quest today with a bang. Or, to put it more accurately, with a blowout.

Sweden, the country that invented sledge hockey, were met with a crushing defeat as the Canadians trounced them 10-1. Among the top Canadians who scored goals were Adam Dixon, Anthony Gale and Dominic Larocque. Billy Bridges scored the first goal against Sweden just over a minute after the game started.

Greg Westlake, Canada's team captain, told CBC Sports following the game that despite today's win, he would like to seem his teammates improve defensively. They will get their chance in tomorrow's game against Norway.

The men's Norwegian team played their first game against the Czech Republic today, and won by a score of 2-1.

Canadian team coach Mike Mondin assured fans that his sledge hockey team will be fully prepared to face the tough Norwegian team tomorrow.

The preliminary round of men's sledge hockey will continue until Thursday, when the top four teams advance to the semi-finals. Canada is predicted to be a medal favourite at these games.

UPDATE: You can watch the highlights below

Sochi 2014 Paralympic Wheelchair curling

Curling is one of the most popular sports in Canada, and they have dominated the world. I'm a huge fan and enjoy watching curling, with all the strategy and amazing shotmaking by the curlers.

Just like the Canadian Olympic curling teams, the Paralympic curling team will be considered one of the favourites as well. Canada are the two-time gold medalist at the Paralympics, since it was introduced in 2006 at Turin, Italy. They will be looking to defend their Paralympic title from Vancouver 2010 and stay on top.The returning team consists of skip Jim Armstrong, Ina Forrest, Sonja Gaudet (3rd time Paralympian), with newcomers Dennis Thiessen, and Mark Ideson, who are the 2013 world wheelchair curling champions.

Competition begins March 8 at the ice cube curling center against teams from China, Finland, Great Britain (Silver, 2006), Norway, Russia, Slovakia, South Korea (Silver, 2010), Sweden (2 bronze medals), and USA.

Canada will open the round-robin versus Great Britain on March 8th At 12:30 AM, followed by Russia at 6:30 AM.

You can catch all the curling action live online at The official Paralympics website. Or on its YouTube channel.

Alternatively, you can watch the action @CBCsports.ca, you can find the schedule here.

TV listings for the 2014 Paralympic Games

Friday, March 7
CBC & AMI    Opening Ceremony (Live)    2-5pm

Saturday, March 8
CBC & AMI     Live Coverage        1-3pm
Sportsnet     Daily Highlights           7-9pm

Sunday, March 9
AMI        Live Coverage        9-11am
CBC                                       2-4pm

Monday, March 10
AMI                    9-10am
CBC                    4-5pm
Sportsnet             7-8pm

Tuesday, March 11
AMI                    9-10am
CBC                    4-5pm   
Sportsnet             7-8pm

Wednesday, March 12
AMI                    9-10am
CBC                    4-5pm
Sportsnet             7-8pm

Thursday, March 13
AMI                    9-10am
CBC                    4-5pm
Sportsnet             7-8pm

Friday, March 14
AMI                    9-10am
CBC                    4-5pm
Sportsnet             7-8pm

Saturday, March 15
CBC & AMI    Live Coverage        3-5pm

Sunday, March 16
CBC & AMI    Closing Ceremony    1-4pm


AMI is channel 48 for Bell, and 888 on Rogers.

The Paralympics are back, this time with expanded coverage

The 2014 Winter Paralympics begin next Friday, March 7 in Sochi, Russia. What is significant about these games is that it will, for the first time, receive more extensive coverage, including live TV broadcasts!

The CBC and Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) are providing most of the Canadian coverage between March 7 and 16. Yahoo Canada Sports and Sendtosports will handle live Internet streaming of the games. There is also an unconfirmed report that Sportsnet may also provide some coverage.

A broadcast deal was recently struck with the Canadian Paralympic Committee in response to viewer dissatisfaction over the extremely limited attention given to the Paralympics in past years. This deal means that more than 65 hours of television broadcast and up to 350 hours of digital streaming.

The official Paralympics website offers live streaming at http://www.paralympic.org/news/watch-sochi-2014-paralympics-livestream-trailer. Alternatively, you can also watch them live on its YouTube channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/ParalympicSportTV. It presently has 23,811 subscribers (as of March 2).

NBC is providing coverage of the games for the first time ever in the US. A huge outcry occurred in the disability community when it ignored the 2012 London games two summers ago. Network executives at the time wrote a message with a dismissive tone suggesting that there was little or no viewer interest in the Paralympics. Channel 4 in the UK, however, provided acclaimed, though mostly pre-recorded, coverage that was syndicated internationally.

We will be blogging more about the 2014 Paralympics, including a TV guide-style listing.

A final TV schedule has not officially been released yet. We can tell you that CBC will show the Opening Ceremonies live on March 7, from 2-5pm ET.