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Old 14-09-2016, 18:51
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Am thinking it's likely there will be 2 or 3. Kadeena & Sarah Storey are both highly likely. With maybe 1 other like Libby Clegg or Hannah Cockcroft.
When you consider Jason Kenny, Laura Trott and Chris Froome will need to be included as well that's five cyclists. Having nearly half the shortlist made up of athletes from just one sport would look a bit ridiculous imo.
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Old 14-09-2016, 19:00
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When you consider Jason Kenny, Laura Trott and Chris Froome will need to be included as well that's five cyclists. Having nearly half the shortlist made up of athletes from just one sport would look a bit ridiculous imo.
It is hard to find reasons to drop anyone who has been successful on a bike, same as it is hard to find reasons to drop anyone who has been successful on the track.

It is going to be neigh on impossible to get a shortlist that everyone will be happy with, such is the extremely high standard of potential people deserving to be on it.
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Old 14-09-2016, 19:00
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I have never suggested that the Paralympics and Olympics should be merged, all I have said is that we have seen some outstanding athletes produce some unbelievable feats at the Paralympics, just as we have done at the Olympics.
Saying that for this award they should be considered as equals, and should be on the same level, is not saying that o e event should be cancelled, and we should just have a bigger version of the Olympics, I honestly don't quite know how you have made that huge leap.
That is simply not what I was saying at all.


As for saying where you have downplayed the Para athletes, well you did suggest for some reason that they should be excluded from this award, and should have their own separate award, that to me is not being very inclusive, it is being very exclusive and not in a good way.
This award (well the main one is the one we are discussing here) is about recognising top level sporting achievement, and that is exactly what F1, a major in golf or tennis, the Olympics, and Paralympics are, and the people who do well in them, and other sporting areas, deserve to be placed together on this list.
There shouldn't be one for this, and one for that as you suggested earlier.

Top level sporting achievement should be recognised and treasured no matter if the person has two arms, and two legs, a car, a horse, or is blind, if they do well, then why not celebrate that fact?

Having one, two, three, four or more Paralympians on the shortlist would not be tokenism either, it would be because of their sporting merit, just as it would if Andy Murray, or Lewis Hamilton makes the final shortlist.

I would agree with you about tokenism, if there was someone who make the shortlist and for example they had say on got two bronze medals, and someone like Murray missed out altogether.
That however I doubt will be the case this time around, so no cries of tokenism will be merited.
As I'm on my phone now I cant respond to this in depth but suffice to say

1. Your claim that I want Paralympians excluded is wrong. Quote where I said it please, not something that attempts to interpret it.
2. My discussion over about merging the events is directly in response to your assertion that the athletes are just as good.
3. It seems to me that its never you missing the point in these discussions. However you are so black and white about things that there is no room for realistic discussion of the issue in hand.
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Old 14-09-2016, 19:23
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As I'm on my phone now I cant respond to this in depth but suffice to say

1. Your claim that I want Paralympians excluded is wrong. Quote where I said it please, not something that attempts to interpret it.
2. My discussion over about merging the events is directly in response to your assertion that the athletes are just as good.
3. It seems to me that its never you missing the point in these discussions. However you are so black and white about things that there is no room for realistic discussion of the issue in hand.
There is plenty of room for discussion with me, I am not black and white in my views, plenty of different shades can be had.

My point about the athletes being just as good, doesn't equate to, right that's it, stop the Paralympians from ever going to the Paralympics ever again.
Far from it, both games should continue, and showcase immense talent from around the globe.
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Old 14-09-2016, 20:02
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When you consider Jason Kenny, Laura Trott and Chris Froome will need to be included as well that's five cyclists. Having nearly half the shortlist made up of athletes from just one sport would look a bit ridiculous imo.
Why dont they create a new award that recognises all the Paralympic winners
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Old 14-09-2016, 20:43
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Why dont they create a new award that recognises all the Paralympic winners
Why? They should be eligible for the main award just like any other top sports people.
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Old 14-09-2016, 20:46
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Not forgetting Georgia Hermitage either with her two golds!
Get in-line behind Josh!
This backs up everything I said earlier. Nobody can mention a Paralympian without you needing to crow bar in a reference to someone else. Its not like posters don't know they exist.

You talk in black and white terms. You haven't answered any question I've put to you in the interest of furthering discussion and any attempt to do so seems to be an absolute waste of time because you have no interest in the point I am making. You are putting Paralympians on a false pedestal, which means in your world anyone else failing to do so is "putting them down." Can we not just celebrate their achievements without them being claimed to be as good as able bodied counterparts thanks to a freak time in the mens Olympic 1500 metres final?
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Old 14-09-2016, 20:48
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Why? They should be eligible for the main award just like any other top sports people.
Despite nobody claiming otherwise.

Utter ignorance of what others say.
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Old 14-09-2016, 20:49
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Why? They should be eligible for the main award just like any other top sports people.
because they aren't top sports stars

they are the best within a narrow field of conditionality

there are a number of disabled football leagues in the UK, including leagues for people with visual impairments, deafness and amputees

are the winners of those leagues on par with man utd in terms of level of excellence ?
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Old 14-09-2016, 21:01
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'Narrow field of conditionality'? In that case, best to disqualify Bolt right now, as his field is limited to 'freaks of nature whose long legs should not move as quickly as they do'.
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Old 14-09-2016, 21:08
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'Narrow field of conditionality'? In that case, best to disqualify Bolt right now, as his field is limited to 'freaks of nature whose long legs should not move as quickly as they do'.
is that a condition of him taking part ?

he competes against all-comers does he not, there is not specific category that says the olympics 100m is limited to people of a certain height or leg length is there ?

trying to argue that paralympic sports are not subject to a narrow field of conditionality doesn't make alot of sense tbh

https://www.paralympic.org/classification
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Old 14-09-2016, 21:24
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This backs up everything I said earlier. Nobody can mention a Paralympian without you needing to crow bar in a reference to someone else. Its not like posters don't know they exist.

You talk in black and white terms. You haven't answered any question I've put to you in the interest of furthering discussion and any attempt to do so seems to be an absolute waste of time because you have no interest in the point I am making. You are putting Paralympians on a false pedestal, which means in your world anyone else failing to do so is "putting them down." Can we not just celebrate their achievements without them being claimed to be as good as able bodied counterparts thanks to a freak time in the mens Olympic 1500 metres final?
Hang on, the "Get in line behind Josh" comment was in relation to Josh off of The Last Leg (or The Fast Clegg), who has admitted his man crush on Mr Peacock, so how is that trying to crowbar a reference of the Paralympics into my comments??

It was a lighthearted comment, so why did you take it so seriously?
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Old 14-09-2016, 21:27
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because they aren't top sports stars

they are the best within a narrow field of conditionality

there are a number of disabled football leagues in the UK, including leagues for people with visual impairments, deafness and amputees

are the winners of those leagues on par with man utd in terms of level of excellence ?
We will have to disagree here, as I definitely believe that the Paralympians are top athletes, and compete internationally (which is something that to my knowledge the football clubs and leagues you mentioned do not do), and prove themselves to be the best in the world.
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Old 14-09-2016, 21:29
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We will have to disagree here, as I definitely believe that the Paralympians are top athletes, and compete internationally (which is something that to my knowledge the football clubs and leagues you mentioned do not do), and prove themselves to be the best in the world.
they are competing against the best in their field, something you used as a condition for deserving equal praise in an earlier post

so if a deaf football team wins their league, beating all the compeition in their field, does that make them the equals of the EPL winners ?
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Old 14-09-2016, 21:39
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they are competing against the best in their field, something you used as a condition for deserving equal praise in an earlier post

so if a deaf football team wins their league, beating all the compeition in their field, does that make them the equals of the EPL winners ?
If a deaf team were to win their league, then they would rightfully be called the best in their own field, just as the Premier League winners would be the best in their own field, would they be equals, probably not, but that should not mean that the deaf team deserve any less praise.
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Old 14-09-2016, 22:46
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Hang on, the "Get in line behind Josh" comment was in relation to Josh off of The Last Leg (or The Fast Clegg), who has admitted his man crush on Mr Peacock, so how is that trying to crowbar a reference of the Paralympics into my comments??

It was a lighthearted comment, so why did you take it so seriously?
What about your Georgia Hermitage comment?
Why would you assume everyone knows which Josh you are talking about? Why refer to people by first name alone?

Why not answer some of my questions before asking your own ones?
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Old 14-09-2016, 22:50
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We will have to disagree here, as I definitely believe that the Paralympians are top athletes, and compete internationally (which is something that to my knowledge the football clubs and leagues you mentioned do not do), and prove themselves to be the best in the world.
The poster was asking about the top disabled UK teams being on par with teams of equivalent standing such as Manchester United, he wasn't comparing them to the best in the world.

You are completely clueless, honestly, when it comes to understanding context. Its reasonable to ask why if you are always praising Manchester United why you do not give similar praise to their disabled equivalents, or is it only every four years that disabled sport suddenly becomes a point of phenomenally disproportionate interest?
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Old 15-09-2016, 00:32
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When you consider Jason Kenny, Laura Trott and Chris Froome will need to be included as well that's five cyclists. Having nearly half the shortlist made up of athletes from just one sport would look a bit ridiculous imo.
Well Kadeena can be equally classified as an athlete. In 2008 the top 10 then included 4 cyclists - Chris Hoy who won & Nicole Cooke, Bradley Wiggins & Rebecca Romero so a similar situation.
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Old 15-09-2016, 00:40
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Well Kadeena can be equally classified as an athlete. In 2008 the top 10 then included 4 cyclists - Chris Hoy who won & Nicole Cooke, Bradley Wiggins & Rebecca Romero so a similar situation.
I think you got to have Kadeena Cox and also Dame Sarah Storey on the list

So is that the two Paralympians we should have on the shortlist then
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Old 15-09-2016, 09:13
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Dear god even by his usual standards Batdude has surpassed himself in the level of being completely out of his depth and not understanding a subject at all. Embarrassing but at least he's got the attention he wants I suppose.
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Old 15-09-2016, 10:07
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Does anyone feel the Russian hackers could damage any of the sports represented in the short list ?
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Old 15-09-2016, 13:36
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I think you got to have Kadeena Cox and also Dame Sarah Storey on the list

So is that the two Paralympians we should have on the shortlist then
Highly likely both will be on there as I've previously said. There may be a 3rd, 1 name not seen mentioned is Gordon Reid. If he wins singles & Doubles gold in Rio added to singles & doubles Wimbledon titles could be another strong contender. He also won the singles title at the Australian Open & the French Open Doubles title.
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Old 15-09-2016, 13:55
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Highly likely both will be on there as I've previously said. There may be a 3rd, 1 name not seen mentioned is Gordon Reid. If he wins singles & Doubles gold in Rio added to singles & doubles Wimbledon titles could be another strong contender. He also won the singles title at the Australian Open & the French Open Doubles title.
Yep I was thinking this the other day - reidy won Wimbledon men's singles as well but only got £20 grand for his troubles but if he wins gold in Rio then he should be on the short list surely - Wimbledon singles winner + gold medal winner - why wouldn't he be ?
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Old 15-09-2016, 18:43
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Andy Murray will miss his grandfathers funeral tommorow to play a Davis cup semi final against del Potro - let's hope he wins because that's got bad PR all over it
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Old 15-09-2016, 19:14
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There could be a late candidate for Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, to challenge Usain Bolt.

Liam Malone, a New Zealand Paralympic sprinter, who has broken Oscar Pistorius' 400m world record and has won two gold medals and a silver medal in Rio also just happens to have a terrific personality. His post race interviews have been brilliant and I'm really looking forward to seeing him on The Last Leg, which he has promised to appear on before the Games are over.
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