Summer Paralympic Games Paris 2024

[tirtha22 233]

On 9/1/2024 at 9:18 PM, MHSN said:

 

 

there are other Iranians in Paralympics, paid to compete for Turkiye but only this one completely changed his name, guess why ? probably to not get identified.  didn't work well.

 

I found another one.

 

Roman Moustopoulos represented Greece in Judo at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

 

Now he competed for Turkiye as Vedat Albayrak.

[Grassmarket 3,409]

Of we go with the cycling road ITTs.  Many races running concurrently in several different bunches, short 14.1k course & safely out in the suburbs.

 

Pretty flat & twisty course.

Edited September 4 by Grassmarket

[Grassmarket 3,409]

Chinese cyclist crashes on the ramp  - up & running though.  Ramp is a bit steep.

[Josh 10,517]

It’s a 13th Paralympic gold for  Sarah Storey, as she wins by just under 5 seconds in the women’s C5 time trial! 

[Grassmarket 3,409]

37 minutes ago, Josh said:

It’s a 13th Paralympic gold for  Sarah Storey, as she wins by just under 5 seconds in the women’s C5 time trial! 

13 in cycling, 5 in swimming!  

[Josh 10,517]

7 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

13 in cycling, 5 in swimming!  

Yes that’s right, I probably should’ve specified 

[Grassmarket 3,409]

Why are  doing so badl?

 

Germany's Paralympics team lagging behind in Paris medal table (msn.com)

[heywoodu 15,145]

So many reigning Olympic champions are participating in these Paralympic Games, who knew. At least according to the Paralympic channel's own commentator teams  

[heywoodu 15,145]

On 9/1/2024 at 5:48 PM, MHSN said:

something interesting for you guys

 

this guy who won a gold medal yesterday and will probably win another one in next few days

https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024-paralympics/athlete/serkan-yildirim_2000715

 

is in fact the same person as this guy

https://worldathletics.org/athletes/islamic-republic-of-iran/sajjad-hashemiahangari-14422407

 

and he is not blind,  he is a national record holder in Iran in 400m and 2012 Olympian

 

I'm no doctor but I highly doubt he is qualified to participate in Paralympics in T12 class. he probably has a better eyesight than some of us here.

 

there are other Iranians in Paralympics, paid to compete for Turkiye but only this one completely changed his name, guess why ? probably to not get identified.  didn't work well.

 

I assume by now it's been mentioned, but I hadn't come across this so I thought I'd mention it to be sure: that 100m gold is a DQ now  

 

I'm curious about the behind the scenes there though. He would of course not be the first able-bodied athlete who loses a limb, eyesight or something and has to switch to para sports (I mean, I'm living with an athlete who in a matter of weeks lost half the vision in one of her eyes this year due to a parasite, which may come back at any moment in life and might force a switch to para sports if things get bad, so I can kind of imagine how fast things can in fact go in terms of losing abilities).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serkan_Yıldırım

 

Seems like the DQ is more about the process and proper procedures not having yet been followed than him beeing deemed an actual fraud by the IPC?

Edited September 4 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,145]

Why do some of the tricycle riders have someone behind them on a regular bike, while others do not?