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errr...the olympics aren't over yet!
ray.ray.returns
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The Paralympics are still to come. Unless of course you are discriminating against them, or, don't like the fact that Tom Daley and Andy Murrey won't be in them :mad: I wonder who will sponsor them and if they will get an extravagant opening / closing ceremony?
I think its about time the two events merged anyway to be honest. I don't mean have half athletes on legs and half on wheelchairs, I mean have a leg race and a wheelchair race. That way its all clumped together and we aren't segregating them.
I think its about time the two events merged anyway to be honest. I don't mean have half athletes on legs and half on wheelchairs, I mean have a leg race and a wheelchair race. That way its all clumped together and we aren't segregating them.
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They have the same sponsors in tier 1 Visa, Acer, Coca Cola, McDonalds. P & G, Panasonic, Lloyds plus Sainsburys
History of the Paralympics http://www.paralympics.org.uk/games/games-by-games
They are two seperate events and the logistics of putting them on simultaneously to avoid 'discrimination' don't bear thinking about
One of, if not the, daftest ideas put forward this summer
Why is it discrimination to not have any interest in the Paralympic Games?
They are not the same as the Olympics - they will pull far smaller audiences and I'm not sorry to say that I will be watching little or none of it. Discrimination? If you say so.
Bring on just one Paralympian who would want us to be bullied or emotionally blackmailed into watching them.
You won't find them and they don't want anyone's sympathy.
I shall be watching it because I want to.
That's quite a stupid assumption to make.
BIB - considering there are about 20 100m races alone in the Paralympics, it's a pretty stupid idea.
I got tickets to the equestrian about a month ago but I looked last week & only monday morning was for sale.
The 5 a side was sold quickly.
Saw that on a huge billboard today.:D
I'm not surprised. There's such a feel good factor around. Great news for the Paralympic athletes.
However I think they all deserve medals, for the following reason.
There's rarely "the same disability."
Often there is marginal difference.
Also similar disabilities can affect different people in different ways.
So regardless of what handicap system is used and these can be subjective (by the way, I think I should be on a much higher golf handicap than I am) I believe it is impossible to create a completely level playing field.
So the effort required by some to perform whatever task, can me marginally be greater than it is for others. This will of course, can be the difference between winning and losing.
At the flag handover couldn't they have a paralympic handover too ?
Just before they put out the stadium flame, couldn't they light a torch for the paralympics, keeping the continuity of the flame for the lauch of the relay ?
They wouldn't like that, the dousing of the flame dignifies closure.
The Paralympics is a separate event, with it's own traditions etc.,
They currently use the same cities and venues by means of signed agreements. Until 1988, the Paralympics (or Games for the Disabled as they were referred to before then) were not regularly held in the same country as the Olympics, let alone the same city.
Another example is Macau, which competes in the Paralympics as they are an IPC member, but do not compete in the Olympics as they are not an IOC member, despite years of trying.