Paralympics - the immediate legacy

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

Forgive my little outburst last night, I was tired and emotional, I.e had a little bit to drink

 

[El Sid]

Forgive my little outburst last night, I was tired and emotional, I.e had a little bit to drink

Were you very very very drunk........?

Well done on your excellent thread - read with interest every day. Your enthusiasm was infectious.
I am glad it was not spoilt by some of the other mindless posts found in other threads on the subject.

 

[Questions]

And when disabled pornography is accepted.................................. well THAT will be a real breakthrough

If you are struggling to get that sort of stuff........ El Pres might be your man.

 

[teaboy]

May I ask why this big spate of Paralympic threads at the end of the games when my thread during the games got limited response from
A handful of regular posters and at times was largly just me posting and posting updates. Either I'm on a massive amount of peoples ignore list or people don't give a shite about the Paralympics.
And yes this will be the start of something big for our paralympics

I would've been more a part of your excellent thread, but have been at the Games pretty much every day!

I'd like the legacy to be remembering the names of our athletes. After all, this is minority sport within minority sports. I don't want to hear about 'that wheelchair girl', but Hannah Cockcroft (brilliant and bonkers!), Shelly Woods (gutted for her yesterday, but a silver isn't too bad!) and Jade Jones (she can be known as the wheelchair athlete, but only to distinguish her from the Taekwondo girl!). I want to see more para-sport covered in the media, and I want to attend more events.

Overall, WE are the legacy. 'Inspire a Generation' was an instruction, not a tag-line. Get kids and disabled people into sport, and support the organisations that do.

 

[Simster]

Talking of the legacy, I have to say that in hindsight I am really pleased that the Tottenham stadium bid didn't win. Can you imagine the public mood this week, seeing them tear down the building?

Anyone going to the athlete's parade this afternoon in London? I think I may toddle off down to St Paul's and watch from there.

 

[Hillian1]

The legacy has already started in my opinion.

Up until this Paralympics I've never watched or even been remotely interested in disability sports of any kind, my mindset has always been it's a bit patronising towards them, a sort of "Ah bless, didn't she/he do well".

How wrong can you be, it seems it was my own ignorance. Over the last 11 days I've seen blind people play football better than I could, people with one or no legs run at speeds I could never achieve, a bloke with no arms hold a bow with his foot and loose the arrow with his teeth, a girl with tiny arms swim quicker than me even having to use her head to touch the wall.

I have been inspired and have wondered to myself that should I have been in a similar circumstance would I have aspired to achieve what they have? I think not.

 

[Safeway]

I'd like the legacy to be remembering the names of our athletes. After all, this is minority sport within minority sports. I don't want to hear about 'that wheelchair girl', but Hannah Cockcroft

You could start by spelling her name correctly.

 

[stss30]

How do you define a spectator somebody who watches it live or on TV, with the third world coverage at times from C4 you can hardly compare one to the other.

Some athletes in the olympics have advantages over other as well, our cyclists for example have the best facilities, equipment and coaches in the world, hence they win so many medals

Fair point but i still don't see how you can make a swimming race between a person with dwarfism and a person without an arm fair for example. At least all cyclists in the olympics start off the same at the start.

 

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

Were you very very very drunk........?

Well done on your excellent thread - read with interest every day. Your enthusiasm was infectious.
I am glad it was not spoilt by some of the other mindless posts found in other threads on the subject.

Yes I was and thank you sir. Perhaps my enthusiasm for the games got the better of me sometimes. I was truely absorbed by the Paralympic athletes athleticism and dignity. Many thanks to everybody for humouring me with my thread and not telling me to bugger off.

 

[Questions]

If it encourages other disabled people to have a go themselves then it is job done. It is about giving people opportunity. Trust me the TV companies will not be falling over themselves to cover a great deal of para sports in the future. They never have in the past and you may if you are lucky get a small highlights package for the para athletics worlds on the track, but that is about all.