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Are The Paralympics Patronising?
Just a thought.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I was suprised to learn that Adam Hills and others with his disability can't compete in the Paralympics Tennis because he doesn't use a wheelchair. There is not a category for standing tennis.
He was told he would have to use a wheelchair but to be good enough for wheelchair tennis he would have to live in it full time for months, to come to rely on it so it became second nature.
It's interesting how different sports deal with the problem. Some of the wheelchair sports actually allow anybody to take part as the wheelchair serves to equalise them. Other sports (rugby is one) where players are rated handicap-wise and at any time the handicap total on the playing field is limited.