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Hello,
By chance I know some of the paralympic athletes and medialist because
we train together. I have got a lot of admiration for their will power
and enthusiasm as there is not much acknowledgement for them and some
of them have to search quite hard for enough pool time. I was actually
positivly surprised that the BBC had a greater coverage than they had
last time. Which surely is by far not enough.... But what about all
the events in between?
And where does their income come from? How do they earn money? will
their Sport ever become professional in terms of being paid for it
other than by the national Lottery (I am glad they are sponsoring
paralympic athletes)and regularily on TV????
The older Brother of one of the children I teach was one of the
swimmers, everybody in the school was very excited for him and many
tried to see his heats on television. Which I thought was great, but
again these children have their difficulties (mainly dyslexia and
related problems) too.
nicole
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>
>Dear Denise,
>
>I agree that disabled athletes should be included alongside
able-bodied
>athletes on 'Question of Sport' on a regular basis, not segregated
but
>equals on the programme.
>
>However, it's my understanding that 'Question of Sport' had already
had a
>special Olympics programme, but this was shown whilst the Paralympics
was
>still being held. The programme on this week was a 'special' on the
>Paralympics games. Whilst the Paralympics and the Olympics are still
>separate events, I think the BBC was justified in having separate
>'specials'.
>
>Hmmmm.......what do you think?!
>
>Yours,
>Mhairi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vicky Lucas
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> Sent: 21 November 2000 19:43
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: BBC Own goal
>
> Denise
>
> I agree that having a 'special' just segregates even more.
>Why not just have
> disabled athletes regularly on the show with all the other
>athletes? Then
> seeing disabled athletes on the telly won't be such a shock
>to our
> non-disabled viewers! It may even start to become natural to
>see disabled
> people on the telly! :-)
>
> Vicky
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: soc-lab <[log in to unmask]>
> To: denise <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 2:36 PM
> Subject: Re: BBC Own goal
>
>
> > Denise,
> >
> > I think you begin to answer your own question at the end
>of
> > your posting. The reason the Paralympians were on the show
> > was that they represented that rare British sporting
> > commodity, a success. Had they done as poorly as Britain's
> > able bodied athletes have done over the years, you can bet
> > any money you like that we wouldn't have seen them at all.
> >
> > Peter Handley
> > School of Economic and Social Studies,
> > University of East Anglia,
> > Norwich NR4 7TJ
> > UK
> >
> > Hello,
> > I am new to the list but felt I had to voice my unease at
> > the BBC's =
> > decision last night to make Question of Sport a Paralymic
> > special. For =
> > non-UK members this programme is a sports quiz that
>features
> > sports =
> > personalities as guests and is scheduled at prime evening
> > viewing.=20
> > My unease is that the programme was billed as featuring
>our
> > 'special' =
> > paralympic heroes/heroines, what is wrong with including
> > such sports =
> > personalities on a regular basis? why segregate? To my
> > knowledge & I =
> > admit to not being a regular viewer, (although others in
>my
> > household =
> > are) the programme very very occasionally has a disabled
> > guest. To make =
> > matters worse the first round is a picture board question,
> > and the first =
> > guest to be asked a question was Simon Jackson, the
>visually
> > impaired =
> > judo medal winner, as he pointed out it didn't make much
> > difference to =
> > him which picture to choose, because he couldn't see them
> > anyway.
> > Up to this point I thought that TV coverage of the
> > Paralympics had been =
> > reasonable, certainly better than in previous years, so
>why
> > now make a =
> > circus of winners. Please don't get me wrong I think these
> > athletes =
> > should be on TV far more, but in their capacity as
> > sportspeople not =
> > because they are different, even my young son was
> > questioning why make a =
> > special and not just include these people on a regular
> > basis?
> > My argument however does not aim to distract from the fact
> > that these =
> > people are special, due to the fact they won such a clutch
> > of medals, =
> > something we Brits. aren't used to in major sporting
>events.
> > Regards Denise.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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