The Official Paralympics Thread

[dww]

It's just one step short of ballball, surely the ultimate ball game.

[Chazza]

Team GB coming out.

[Shaggy]

****ing hell that still going on?!

[Chazza]

Yep still going, looking like it might over run quite a bit.

Was just looking up on the wheelchair rugby which was originally known as 'Murderball'

Check this out

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGXacp0P3U"]Wheelchair Rugby "Murderball" Hit - YouTube[/ame]

[Chazza]

World records in the pool and in the Velodrome for team GB this morning.

[Alex]

Watching it while working. They really pack the heats in during the swimming. The next lot were basically diving in as the others finished

[Chazza]

Did you see the cycling?

Sarah Storrie broke the WR just the 72nd time she has done that over 2 sports.

[Alex]

Clearly Technology is improving faster than Athletes now.

[Shaggy]

Can't get into it

Transfer window stuff is taking far greater priority

[Chazza]

She was born without one hand and used to be a swimmer until she got an ear infection.

Whilst she couldn't swim she took up cycling to stay fit and broke a world record in the first 6 months.

She is about 14 secs quicker than the next fastest athlete and was close to qualifying for the able bodied team in the track cycling.

[Roboklopp]

My mate's mate competes in the Paralypics cycling. He had Sarah Storey round his house the other day & reckons she fancies him. Another mate asked him if he would & his reply was "no way, she's got a little gimpy hand". He's an amputee & not the most politically correct of the partcipants in the paras....

[Neil Young]

She was born without one hand and used to be a swimmer until she got an ear infection.

Whilst she couldn't swim she took up cycling to stay fit and broke a world record in the first 6 months.

She is about 14 secs quicker than the next fastest athlete and was close to qualifying for the able bodied team in the track cycling.

Yes, she's an excellent rider. She'd probably have made the Olympic team for any other nation.

[Alex]

If she is good enough to compete with the able-bodied, why is she taking the place of someone else at the Paralympics? I understand she has the disability. But it doesn't seem to affect her based on what you say.

[Shaggy]

Is it true some competitors have been kicked out for not being disabled enough?

My missus works with disabled people at a college. Their football team, she says, is full of very much disabled people who barely know the rules, no idea which way they're kicking the ball etc. Apparently most of the teams they face fill their XIs with big, strapping, able-bodied lads who merely have conditions like dyslexia ....you get scores like 48-0 and stuff.

[Neil Young]

If she is good enough to compete with the able-bodied, why is she taking the place of someone else at the Paralympics? I understand she has the disability. But it doesn't seem to affect her based on what you say.

Who can say? It's impossible to assess that.

Besides, she wasn't good enough to compete at the Olympics so, while I get what you're saying, it's a false premise.

Qualification for the Paralympics is dependent on having a disability, but it's doesn't have to be one that hinders you in sporting performance.

The mirror image of cycling for fat people or running for people who aren't very fast or basketball for short people. Their bodies hinder their performance but it's not a disability.