Hi David,
Without doubts, you are right, sport, like politic, by the very nature are
exclusionary. Whereas, I must say with much disappointment, those of us in
Quebec are deprived from following the London event, compared to what I
recall of the Vancouver games. There paralympic got lots more media
coverage.
It seems to me, it would make sense to at least have the opening and
closing Olympic/ paralympic ceremonies together. It would allow general
population to gain a different perspective. Vancouver did that a little, and
already it achieved some recognition.
All I have seen in Quebec media about the London paralympic is how
unprepared your transport system has been, I think, however, that is meant
stop those of us who complain about our transport system; interesting
strategy for politicians in mist of a divisive election campaign .
Maria
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From: "David Howe" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: The Paralympics represents apartheid in sport.
> 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
>
>
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> 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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