Summer Paralympic Games Paris 2024

[Josh 12,140]

8th Paralympic gold for  Tlili! 
 

Takes the women’s discus throw F41 title by 9cm over  Karim. 

Edited September 4, 2024 by Josh

[Quasit 870]

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

 

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

Why so focused on Germany all the time?

The question should be why is Sweden doing so bad? No medal at all.

[heywoodu 16,279]

2 minutes ago, Quasit said:

Why so focused on Germany all the time?

The question should be why is Sweden doing so bad? No medal at all.

What are the events in which they have 'dropped the ball' so far, so to speak? No idea who the favourites are in most events, so it may just as well be that they're actually performing as expected and just didn't really have any medal favourites in action yet  

Edited September 4, 2024 by heywoodu

[Quasit 870]

14 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

What are the events in which they have 'dropped the ball' so far, so to speak? No idea who the favourites are in most events, so it may just as well be that they're actually performing as expected and just didn't really have any medal favourites in action yet  

Which is exactly my question (I'm not up to date with Paralympic sports).

How can Sweden be so inexistent in it?

[heywoodu 16,279]

9 minutes ago, Quasit said:

Which is exactly my question (I'm not up to date with Paralympic sports).

How can Sweden be so inexistent in it?

Right, I thought you meant they have performed disappointingly so far

 

No idea actually, definitely one of the nations that are clearly better at Olympic than Paralympic events (the opposite of a country like Ukraine I guess).

[Josh 12,140]

 Smith rocking blue hair and a red mohawk, I love it 

Edited September 4, 2024 by Josh

[heywoodu 16,279]

13 minutes ago, Josh said:

 Mezik rocking blue hair and a red mohawk, I love it 

What would be the minimum requirements one needs to play boccia, in terms of being able to move? Asking you because you seem to watch it quite a bit  

[Josh 12,140]

8 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

What would be the minimum requirements one needs to play boccia, in terms of being able to move? Asking you because you seem to watch it quite a bit  

Only during these Paralympics  (first time watching boccia since Tokyo, I believe? and even then it was around 2-3 matches, not the 5+ I’ve watched so far)

 

I’m afraid I’m not much of a help, sorry. 

[heywoodu 16,279]

Just now, Josh said:

Only during these Paralympics  (first time watching boccia since Tokyo, I believe? and even then it was around 2-3 matches, not the 5+ I’ve watched so far)

 

I’m afraid I’m not much of a help, sorry. 

Still more than me though

 

I'm wondering if this is playable if basically all you can move is your arms, but to quite a limited extent. That's the situation for my sister's boyfriend, who can basically just move his arms due to a muscle disease (and only very limited, like he can't put on a jacket or even a hat by himself or something). Would be cool if this is something he can do  

[MHSN 3,785]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

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?

of course I know things can happen in life unfortunately and Olympic athletes can become eligible for the Paralympics.

 

but in this specific case, nothing really happened to this guy, no accident, no illnesses, apparently he was using contact lenses in his career. he is a well known athlete here, I just checked and even late 2022 he was still #1 in 400m in Iran winning a league competition without any eyesight problem.

 

rumors say he wanted to compete in Paralympics for Iran but our NPC doctors rejected him. then he found somewhere else for his Paralympics project. this is near the end of his career and he wanted to make some money anyway (Turkey pays very good apparently for Paralympic medalists)

 

I feel sorry for him but cheating is cheating.

ps: I have to say there are some rumors about one or two of Iranian Paralympics Judo gold medalists in Tokyo doing the same thing, that probably gave the idea to Mr Hashemi.