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Volcott posted:Could I get a link to that Apple iPod Cast? yeah it's nerdist and they only spend a third of the most recent episode talking about the olympics, but it's funny and greg wyshynski cheers for the right hockey team edit: they talk about the World Cup of Hockey and that's a transparent way for the NHL to tell the IOC to gently caress off get that OUT of my face fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Aug 27, 2016 |
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Any paraplegics turned into quadriplegic yet due to something fucky in Rio?
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Brazil's Dilma Rousseff defends record at impeachment trial: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-37212391 Country is about to tank. Stock market is already down. The Paralympics are in trouble
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But everything was fine
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Jesus even SA doesn't care about the paraplegic games
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Aug 30, 2016 12:29
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It's hard to get excited about something that might not happen. It's not going to get fun till it starts unless a bunch of people to turn up, discover half the site isn't accessible to anyone with mobility problems, and then go home again in disgust.
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Aug 30, 2016 12:32
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couldn't afford ramps, you're all just going to have to take the luge and pray it gets you where you want to go
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The handi-capable could always console themselves with the large number if cinematic productions honoring their struggle. LARGE BUMPS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmMCbsaiuNQ
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A Russian wrestler will now lose his silver medal of the 2012 Olympics after a positive doping test. Plot twist: the man died in a car crash almost three years ago.
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Gabby Douglas was saying on Instagram that she was sick and just got out of the hospital. I hope she's fine and it's not related to zika or butt stuff at all.
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Bean posted:I hope she's fine and it's not related to zika or butt stuff at all. Hope Solo has all the butt stuff covered.
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Aug 30, 2016 13:09
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Jestery posted:Jesus even SA doesn't care about the paraplegic games
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Aug 30, 2016 13:27
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It normally gets TV coverage in the UK. Not on the same scale, but there's normally live events on a daily basis.
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No fun without the drugged up Russian Turbo Cripples™
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Aug 30, 2016 13:59
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There was that year when the Spanish basketball team was half people who weren't disabled. That was fun.
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goatface posted:There was that year when the Spanish basketball team was half people who weren't disabled. That was fun. Being Spanish doesn't count?
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goatface posted:There was that year when the Spanish basketball team was half people who weren't disabled. That was fun. what qualifies as disabled to be able to play? fingat dude could clean house (if he's not fat).
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Aug 30, 2016 16:01
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When are the Paralympics supposed to happen ?
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unpacked robinhood posted:When are the Paralympics supposed to happen ? 7 September.
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Darth123123 posted:what qualifies as disabled to be able to play? fingat dude could clean house (if he's not fat). It was a major part of why they stopped doing learning and developmental disabilities. The Spanish sent a load of people to pretend to have "intellectual disabilities" so they would win gold. Somehow the players agreed to it.
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goatface posted:It was a major part of why they stopped doing learning and developmental disabilities. The Spanish sent a load of people to pretend to have "intellectual disabilities" so they would win gold. Somehow the players agreed to it. So basically they pulled a cartman but were successful?
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The Croc posted:So basically they pulled a cartman but were successful? To the degree that one would think they used that episode as a training video.
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CrashCat posted:I don't think I've ever even seen them. Is there normally any coverage? At most I remember seeing swimming and track events (especially when Pistorious was still a big name in para-athletics) on TV here and there at previous summer paralympic games. I'd always wonder if a swimmer missing an arm or a leg had an advantage. Darth123123 posted:what qualifies as disabled to be able to play? fingat dude could clean house (if he's not fat). I think up until the mid 70s you had to be missing a limb or confined to a wheelchair to be eligible. It's been expanded now to fit things like range of motion issues, impaired musculature, vision impairment, and intellectual impairment (lol Spain's b-ball team). The Deaf have their own Deaflympics event. I don't think fingat goon would be able to qualify. And I know I'm super late to the party with the games being over and all, but I caught up on the thread, and saw all the bemusement/bamboozlement over racewalking. If anyone is still confused over it and why its a thing in the Olympics, feel free to ask questions. I made the NYS championship for 1500m racewalk when I was in HS. Part of the problem is that even though it's supposed to be strict on form, it's easy to game the system, since there are both 'minor' and 'major' infractions for breaking form. The problem was, three major infractions got you a DQ, but you could pretty much run up as many minor infractions as you wanted and stay in the race. I never got flagged for either, but I had a rival I hated because she would constantly pull minors by doing those little jog moves. Two important points: I never once poo poo myself, and you were always going just slow enough that you could hear every comment/joke/insult other athletes were making as you wiggled by them. LadyPictureShow fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Aug 30, 2016 |
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Redgrendel2001 posted:To the degree that one would think they used that episode as a training video. lol apparently not, they just walked in and said they had a low iq. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMNBXU1rP9M
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lol holy poo poo I can hardly believe it. What the gently caress is wrong with Spain?
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LadyPictureShow posted:I think up until the mid 70s you had to be missing a limb or confined to a wheelchair to be eligible. It's been expanded now to fit things like range of motion issues, impaired musculature, vision impairment, and intellectual impairment (lol Spain's b-ball team). The Deaf have their own Deaflympics event. I don't think fingat goon would be able to qualify. I disagree.
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If you are second place in the Chinese qualifiers they blind you so you can go in the paralympics. I saw a documentary on the discovery channel.
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Aug 30, 2016 19:50
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Jel Shaker posted:dunno if you can vpn the bbc after sept, they are introducing passwords per tv licence Oh, poo poo, this is going to put a major crimp in my stream game.
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I'm watching some paralympic videos here and slowly getting the conclusion that China got a level above spain and is actually chopping limbs off to make paralympic athletes how likely is that i wonder
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goatface posted:Lots of military training accidents. I didn't know parade marching training was that dangerous
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nerdz posted:I didn't know parade marching training was that dangerous Sometimes you fall, hard. 
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They got the idea from Tank Man. Lay a bunch of prospects in a line, run over their legs with a tank; viola, instant Paralympians.
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adocious posted:lol holy poo poo I can hardly believe it. What the gently caress is wrong with Spain? Wasn't it the Spanish basketball team who thought it would be a super great idea to have a team photo taken with all of them doing 'Chinese eyes' for the Beijing Olympics. Spain is an awesome place with awesome people, so it's really weird they keep doing this stuff.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Wasn't it the Spanish basketball team who thought it would be a super great idea to have a team photo taken with all of them doing 'Chinese eyes' for the Beijing Olympics. Spain is an awesome place with awesome people, so it's really weird they keep doing this stuff. Spanish B-ball team confirmed for retarded
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Jestery posted:Spanish B-ball team confirmed for hilarious
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Russia banned again, Paralympics: Now Russia banned from 2018 Winter Games http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/83695721/paralympics-now-russia-banned-from-2018-winter-games Hotels in Rio at less than 50% full, http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-real-estate/rio-hotel-occupancy-for-paralympics-less-than-fifty-percent/ Nothing really else is a story , yet.
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i thought spain got racism out of their system after three centuries of general paranoia towards long-since converted or fled muslims and jews. that's why pork is such a big part of spanish cuisine
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LadyPictureShow posted:
So one way of being a paraplegic is to be paralyzed. You still have your legs, but they're just inert lumps of flesh. The other is to have amputations, you just don't have legs. In paralympic races, are these groups segregated? Because if you're in a distance wheelchair race, ceteris parabus a guy with no legs is going to be faster than a guy who has useless legs, because he doesn't have that extra mass weighing him down. If they're not segregated, has there ever been a case where a guy whose legs are paralyzed has elected to have them amputated in order to be able to go faster? Phanatic fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Aug 31, 2016 |
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