And you missed me saying OLYMPICS Instead of PARALYMPICS. Do you see? Do you? *Insert faceslapping emoticon of choice.*
Watching Paralympics... This dude just did a high jump with 1 leg!!! Hopped to the bar and hopped over it. Crazy.... Incredible.
Sorry...the Tokyo thing threw me..until it's seemed to stay up on the board too long so then I guessed lol. Saw wheelchair basketball earlier which kinda hides the ass.... Is there wheel chair fencing? That's got to be cool... Volleyball with those pistorious legs but tight buns would be fab!
Yeh coulda changed it to paralympics then deleted tbh as once these games end this thread will just die and drop down to like page 300 for four years I dunno if prosthetic legs like that would be any good on sand ?! Watching more battlebots at the minute ... it's top
The 15 year old girl that won the butterfly.... awesome stuff. But one of the girls competing in that same race... had no ****in arms!!! Like seriously? Swimming the butterfly with no arms I'm still not entirely sure how they work out who goes into what category. In that race you had 2 girls who were dwarfs, one that was normal height but not sure what her disability was and then a girl with no arms...
Peacock wins the 100m. Another gold. The American guy ran with a baseball hat on backwards & sun glasses.... that's not going to help FFS
That's been the whole issue mate...when it was a "well done for turning up ( go figure the patronising came from the organisers eh?) It didn't matter...now these guys are as pro about their sports as mainstream athletes and...apparently there's the same slimey ****ers who want to abuse the loose categories like the mainstream...dunno whether to feel sad or happy...equality surely shown when disabled athletes cheat like able bodied eh? Lol.
Swimming is the only sport at the Paralympics that allows such a mix of competitors. So athletes with mixed disabilities race each other and are given a rating of 1-10 if they have a physical disability the lower the number the worse the disability, 11-13 if they are visually impaired and 14 if they have an intellectual disability. The organisers match the swimmers up from the different categories in terms of ability The different disabilities across the Paralympics are categorised as follows: amputees, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, wheelchair, visually impaired, les autres (a disability that doesn't fall under other categories i.e. dwarfism, MS, thalidomide poisoning)
Who can stay above water the longest. The dude doing high jump with 1 leg was very impressive. Not even with a prosthetic, just 1 leg hopping!
yeah first time you see it done you just go Wow !!! remember when i first saw it ,which i think was the games held in Amsterdam (probably) as in the old days wasn't always at the host Olympic city, it was the one thing that surprised me.
arguing about categorisation goes back well further than that mate . i still remember a guy i used to play basketball with ranting after some international games he had competed in. Particularly didn't believe the categorisation of a parapleagic basketball competitor he saw riding a bike and that would be around 1979-81 period. It has always been a minefield as it matters so much for example in basketball the system is you are allowed a certain number of points on the pitch (think its 11 these days) at anyone time and the higher your level of impairment the less points you count for i.e. right leg amputated below knee -5 pts T1 lesion complete para - 1 pt. now theoretically the disability is irrelevant but it gives them a starting point of what to expect but if your para is incomplete may have less balance issuesas has more control over muscles below diaphragm so is a more useful player. The trick is to get players with 1 point category but can play with the ability of a 2 or even 3 point player. Edit the assigned points vis a vis disability were examples not necessarily accurate as it's years since i played
