The Paralympics represents apartheid in sport. If they really want to address the issue of exclusion of disabled people in society, we need to have one Olympics that includes all sports played by people who are interested in sport. Of course for the events we have to be fair and all contestants need to be roughly equal, so there needs to be women's events, men's events and events with people with physical impairments.
To allow a company that is implicated in the deaths of over thirty disabled people to be one of the sponsors of the Paralympics is unforgivable. This fact alone reveals that the organizers of Paralympics do not want any real positive change in society for the vast majority of disabled people.
Much is made (by the media) of the origin of the Paralympics being the Stoke Mandeville games, however they used to break the Glenn Eagles Agreement and allowed wounded South African soldiers to participate in the sports, many of the South African team got their physical impairments in Anglo while trying to invade. This was successfully challenged by disabled people by taking direct action in the early 1980's and the connection with Apartheid sport was finally broken.
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