Hello all, especially Keith and David.
Until I read it in the news I had not noticed that The Paralympics
were getting sponsorship (and help with volunteer recruitment) from
Atos. This really makes me feel quite sick. As I said on another
board, I wonder what Dame Tanni Gray-Thompson Makes of this -
considering she is spearheading a campaign with The Citizens Advice
Bureau!
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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 06:16:32 +0000
From: David Howe <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: David Howe <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: The Paralympics represents apartheid in sport.
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> Hi,
>
> By its very nature sport is exclusionary. It has always been based
> on achieving the aims: higher, faster and stronger. Not all
> impairment groups are included in the Paralympic Games and certainly
> not all those eligible will have the physical talent to be
> involved at the highest level. Combining the Olympics and
> Paralympic into one movement does not remove the exclusion
> associated with high performance sport.
>
> The Paralympic Movement is far from perfect. It is my belief that
> there need to be more former Paralympians involved in the running of
> the movement and the stars of London 2012 have to be encouraged to
> take an interest in the movement during their time as athletes so
> that in retirement they can harness their energies on making the
> movement better!
>
> Best
>
> David
>
>
> Dr. P. David Howe
> Senior Lecturer in Anthropology of Sport
> Sport Culture and Policy Lead
> Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport
> School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
> Loughborough University
> UK LE11 3TU
>
> http://www.peterharrisoncentre.org.uk/David_Howe.html
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Keith
> Armstrong
> Sent: 02 September 2012 05:18
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> Subject: The Paralympics represents apartheid in sport.
>
> 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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