The Official Paralympics Thread

[Liverpool]

hang on learning difficulties are allowed in this year? I could have got a gold

[Buzzo]

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.

Remember the Spanish Basketball team who won gold but hardly any of them were disabled. Its the most pointless cheating ever... I just imagine them trying to boast about there Olympic Golds to all their friends... There is noone who could be proud of that gold. Its just such a lame thing to pretend to be good at. They obviously weren't good enough to cheat against able bodied basketballer's so the only way they could win was to cheat against the mentally handicapped. Pretending to be mentally hadicapped to win golds against actual mentally handicapped athletes. Totally without a single moral or scruple or ounce of sportsmanship.

The 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, which had already seen controversy with numerous positive drug tests, would be the venue for one of the most scandalous events in the sport's history. Spain was stripped of their intellectual disability basketball gold medals shortly after the Games closed[5] after Carlos Ribagorda, a member of the victorious team and an undercover journalist, revealed to the Spanish business magazine Capital that most of his colleagues had not undergone medical tests to ensure that they had a disability. The IPC investigated the claims and found that the required mental tests, which should show that the competitors have an IQ of no more than 70,[6] were not conducted by the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE). Ribagorda alleged that some Spanish participants in the table tennis, track and field, and swimming events were also not disabled, meaning that five medals had been won fraudulently.[6][7]
He went on to say that the Spanish Federation for Mentally Handicapped Sports (FEDDI) deliberately chose to sign up athletes who were not intellectually disabled to "win medals and gain more sponsorship".[8] Fernando Martin Vicente, president of the FEDDI and vice-president of CPE, initially denied the allegations.[8] After it was confirmed that 10 of the 12 competitors in the winning team were not disabled,[5] Martin Vicente publicly apologised for the error and accepted total responsibility, resigning just before the findings were officially released.[7]
Two weeks later the team was officially disqualified and was ordered to return the gold medals.[5] The controversy has been cited as one of the "most outrageous sporting moments" in history.[9]

[Chazza]

Fella who has just won Bronze in the Judo ruptured his ACL and MCL 7 weeks ago.

Should barely be able to walk.

[Neil Young]

Well done Sarah Storey. And the bloke who got a silver, whose name escapes me.

[Boogs]

I managed to get hold of 2 velodrome tickets for tomorrow 2-5pm. Cannot wait as this is the venue I really wanted to get into!

[Chazza]

Get them off the website today?

[Boogs]

The Mrs works at Heathrow airport and is a journey leader so they raffled loads of tickets off and she won! Made up!

[Chazza]

Quality.

Enjoy that mate.

[Neil Young]

I wish I'd got tickets as well.

Have fun tomorrow, Boogar. Let us know what it's like.

[BobTheCharmer]

Can't get into it

shame on you. I can't either. the ****ing channel 4 adverts put me off.

[Boogs]

I wish I'd got tickets as well.

Have fun tomorrow, Boogar. Let us know what it's like.

What an amazing day at the velodrome. You have to wait to enter and it's 28 deg in the place as they have to keep it at the racing temp so you have to cram in an air lock before they close the outside doors to get inside.
The track at the corners is so steep, the tv or photos do not do it justce and the whole venue is electric.
So many records were broken and although it is really annoying for him but Jodie Cundy had to be the highlight. This does not catch him giving the bird to the judges or him in the middle of the velodrome throwing a few bottles of water nd screaming obscenities such as "****ing ******s" and "cunts". He collapsed in the middle and after screaming some more sat down in the Team GB area and took his leg off and threw it along with a few more water bottles. The crowd were booing the judges decision and the poor bloke was fuming and I'm not surprised. Bloody great venue and so pleased to have witnessed what we saw throughout the day. link to Mr Cundy having to be marched out of the place
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[Chazza]

Sounds like a great day, much better than it has been in here.

Got Athletics tickets today for Weds, cant wait.

[Boogs]

Sounds like a great day, much better than it has been in here.

Got Athletics tickets today for Weds, cant wait.

It's ****ing brilliant chazza, the stadium is amazing. You really don't notice any disability and just the effort and drive to win it fills you with pride for some reason. The wife has won tickets to the closing do as well on the 9th so I'm well happy! beer is £4.30 for a small bottle of Heineken and everything else is expensive but the feeling when you are their is eminence.
Hope you get to take away as many great memories as we did today. The whole place is so busy it's really hard to get your head around when your their.
Ps stay out of Westfield afterwards its a ****ing nightmare

[Neil Young]

Sounds great, Boogar. Nice.

[Chazza]

The Channel 4 coverage is a ****ing shambles.

Adverts every 5 minutes and more time talking rather than showing the sports.