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1 minute ago, Olympian1010 said:

Cundy :GBR is defeated :yikes:

 

Should be bronze for Metelka @hckošice

 

Gold for Cabello Llamas :ESP

That´s super cool. Nice bronze and start to the games for him in his weakest event. Should be a good moral boost before his main event the pursuit.

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Getting excited for the para dressage finals. Grade II should be a coin-toss between :AUT (formerly :CRO) Puch and :GBR Pearson. Grade IV has :NED Voets as the frontrunner, but :BRA Riskalla always presents a beautiful picture and could create an upset. :NED Hosmar should win Grade V convincingly.

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How does it work with having athletes in the same classification, some of whom have two arms (but one with a deformity on the hand I think), whereas others have no arms? Isn't that way too different to be somewhat fair? :p 

 

Then again, I know you have to combine wildly different impairments to avoid having 800 events with one or two athletes each, but it's sometimes a little hard to really judge how fair an event can be within the boundaries of one class.

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37 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

How does it work with having athletes in the same classification, some of whom have two arms (but one with a deformity on the hand I think), whereas others have no arms? Isn't that way too different to be somewhat fair? :p 

 

Then again, I know you have to combine wildly different impairments to avoid having 800 events with one or two athletes each, but it's sometimes a little hard to really judge how fair an event can be within the boundaries of one class.

They’re constantly shuffling categories around, it’s never really fixed.

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2 hours ago, dcro said:

Getting excited for the para dressage finals. Grade II should be a coin-toss between :AUT (formerly :CRO) Puch and :GBR Pearson. Grade IV has :NED Voets as the frontrunner, but :BRA Riskalla always presents a beautiful picture and could create an upset. :NED Hosmar should win Grade V convincingly.

Lee Pearson wins again, he is the Michael Phelps of equine terpsichore.

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2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

How does it work with having athletes in the same classification, some of whom have two arms (but one with a deformity on the hand I think), whereas others have no arms? Isn't that way too different to be somewhat fair? :p

Sadly that's a problem within Swimming events and Daniel Dias has spoken in the past that it was kinda unfair that athletes there were from a higher class (S6) now are competing with him in S5. Anyway, it's nice to see him still managing to get medals.

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