Summer Paralympic Games Paris 2024

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2 hours ago, Surreal said:

I'm sorry but it's ridiculous they DQ'd him like what did he even do to receive the first yellow?

throat-cutting gesture

[heywoodu 16,004]

5 hours ago, hoversaBR said:

What a fantastic day for Brazil at the Paralympics, with several records:

 

• Most gold medals won at a Paralympic Games ever.
• Most total medals won at a Paralympic Games ever.
• Most golds and total medals won in a single day at a Paralympic Games ever.

 

All this on our Independence Day .

Congratulations  

 

is having it's most succesful Paralympics in terms of medals I'd say as well. There were more in 1988 and a lot more in 1984, but I wouldn't count those as 'more succesfull', considering there were a ridiculous amount of classes and categories to win medals in (literally hundreds more than now).

[Josh 11,528]

First time I’ve ever watched powerlifting 

[heywoodu 16,004]

Third consecutive marathon title incoming for the phenomenal Marcel Hug  

 

Nobody even comes anywhere near him.

Edited September 8, 2024 by heywoodu

[Josh 11,528]

Gharibshari with a new PR of 247 kgs!

[Josh 11,528]

Another PR! 248kg and the reigning Paralympic champion  Enkhbayaryn takes the lead!

[heywoodu 16,004]

29 minutes ago, Josh said:

Gharibshari with a new PR of 247 kgs!

Literally the last day of the Paralympics and it still took me like 10 minutes to understand this was a Paralympic record and not a 'personal record'  (which I know is PB in English, but in Dutch is always abbreviated as PR and it just got too stuck in my mind )

 

I mean, I've been seeing 'PR' (as in, Paralympic record) a billion times this week in swimming and athletics, one would think I'd have learned by now.

Edited September 8, 2024 by heywoodu

[Josh 11,528]

And another one!  252kg from  Gharibshahi, just 2kg shy of the WR 

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46 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Literally the last day of the Paralympics and it still took me like 10 minutes to understand this was a Paralympic record and not a 'personal record'  (which I know is PB in English, but in Dutch is always abbreviated as PR and it just got too stuck in my mind )

 

I mean, I've been seeing 'PR' (as in, Paralympic record) a billion times this week in swimming and athletics, one would think I'd have learned by now.

It took me about 60 years to understand what "seconds out" means in boxing.  

[Josh 11,528]

Women’s wheelchair basketball team down 13-31 to  in the bronze medal match, seriously we’re better than this