Today I am in a good mood, entirely due to one piece of exciting news. On tonight's episode of The Last Leg, Channel 4's hit comedy show that spawned from the Paralympics, it was announced that Channel 4 will broadcast both the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympics and the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics to viewers in the UK.
This is really news for British Paralympic sport; this will help keep Para-sports in the spotlight with a major TV channel showing the world's best disabled athletes competing in a variety of different sports.
I am especially excited for the Winter Paralympic coverage. Over the years the BBC has been more than disappointing when it comes to showing any Winter Sport, let alone Para-Sports of the snow variety.
In 2010 the Beeb couldn't even be bothered to show the opening ceremony on a mainstream channel and what passed for publicity for the games was a 30 second report on children's news show Newsround.
Whereas Channel 4 are going to broadcast 45 hours from the Black Sea Resort next year including The Last Leg which has proved to be a major success both during and after the Paralympics, hopefully boosting the profile of the Winter Games, which are facing an uncertain future.
I am also looking forward to the coverage of the 2016 summer edition of the Paralympics, of which C4 will broadcast 500 hours from the city of Samba.
With Channel 4 slowly gaining a monopoly over Paralympic Sport on British television we are going to see disabled sports on our screens for quite a while, creating a legacy of the London Paralympics that will last until the unforseeable future.
The views of a young sports fan on the Issues that affect Olympic and Paralympic Sport.
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