The Paralympics haven't started yet. They're getting the same amount of attention from the British media, the BBC, the apps and such; if the viewing figures are less, it's the people at home to blame, not them.
Mixing the Paralympics and the Olympics is a rubbish idea. Mixing the events alone will make it a solid month of sport - viewing figures will drop as people become bored and the athletes will want a rest. Mixing with the sports - no. It'd probably be annoying and silly to both the able-bodied and the disabled participants - they will know at a glance that one will have a massive advantage over the other and/or the changes needed for accomodation will make the sport unfair/unworkable. No amount of political correctness will get past that fact.
That's not to say that a disabled individual can get into the Olympics if they pass the same qualifying level as everyone else - just look at Superlegs-I mean Oscar Pistorius. (I love him muchly ever since I included him in a presentation at Uni. ^^) He got in! He didn't do too well bit he did it
As for mixing the Summer and Winter Olympics, all that ice would melt :P and can you imagine the size of the chunk of land needed to build all those differing arenas?
As for mixing the genders, they do in a couple of things already like mixed doubles. Again, no amount of political correctness will change the fact that men and women have a great deal of physical sexual dimorphism; the arrangement of the musculature, the shape of the skeleton, the rates of organ processes... So the sports should remain split, if only for the concept that after the genders are mixed in everything men will keep running well, etc, and most likely no women will get anywhere near the records or the medals and then the angry pseudo-feminist arseholes will be raging for the men to slow down to give the others a chance... I don't want to have to see that kind of political bullshit in the Olympics.
I really loved watching the Olympics. So much cheering and oohing over the good bits. Sometimes not even for the UK - I think we were cheering for Gabby Douglas in the all-around and for Dibaba in the women's 15k or something, and I so wanted Spain to win the synchro after their fish dance. And THE FLYING DUTCHMAN FTW *drools* Paralympics? Can't wait. YAY GIVE ME THAT WHEELCHAIR RUGBY 8D
Mixing the Paralympics and the Olympics is a rubbish idea. Mixing the events alone will make it a solid month of sport - viewing figures will drop as people become bored and the athletes will want a rest. Mixing with the sports - no. It'd probably be annoying and silly to both the able-bodied and the disabled participants - they will know at a glance that one will have a massive advantage over the other and/or the changes needed for accomodation will make the sport unfair/unworkable. No amount of political correctness will get past that fact.
That's not to say that a disabled individual can get into the Olympics if they pass the same qualifying level as everyone else - just look at Superlegs-I mean Oscar Pistorius. (I love him muchly ever since I included him in a presentation at Uni. ^^) He got in! He didn't do too well bit he did it
As for mixing the Summer and Winter Olympics, all that ice would melt :P and can you imagine the size of the chunk of land needed to build all those differing arenas?
As for mixing the genders, they do in a couple of things already like mixed doubles. Again, no amount of political correctness will change the fact that men and women have a great deal of physical sexual dimorphism; the arrangement of the musculature, the shape of the skeleton, the rates of organ processes... So the sports should remain split, if only for the concept that after the genders are mixed in everything men will keep running well, etc, and most likely no women will get anywhere near the records or the medals and then the angry pseudo-feminist arseholes will be raging for the men to slow down to give the others a chance... I don't want to have to see that kind of political bullshit in the Olympics.
I really loved watching the Olympics. So much cheering and oohing over the good bits. Sometimes not even for the UK - I think we were cheering for Gabby Douglas in the all-around and for Dibaba in the women's 15k or something, and I so wanted Spain to win the synchro after their fish dance. And THE FLYING DUTCHMAN FTW *drools* Paralympics? Can't wait. YAY GIVE ME THAT WHEELCHAIR RUGBY 8D
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