What an inspiring post, i agree that not enough focus is put on paralympic games. Hopefully social media can help raise the profile!

There were so many newspaper articles in the big sports papers. Granted, there were liftouts for the Olympics for each day.

The Athenian opening and closing ceremony were great too.

And I remember great events in Beijing, like the cycling.

In the Commonwealth Games, too, there are events for Elite Athletes with a Disability. That makes the point that many of these people (like Louise Sauvage and Chantal Petitclerc: BIG rivalry that one) are Elite Athletes.

I believe the problem is definitely fixable, if there’s a willingness to fix it. Perhaps the movement towards a solution begins, in part, here in blogs and comments to raise awareness that the Paralympics even exist, to increase support for our Paralympians and then work towards combining the two Games. This is so possible!

I see what you mean by the events are segregated by gender. I was referring to the Olympic Games as a whole aren’t segregated along those other lines. There’s one Parade of Athletes!

And, yes, perhaps my advice to youth with disabilities was a little tongue-in-cheek. But, what do you tell a kid when he works as hard as his able-bodied peer who is getting the “goodies” and he isn’t? Doesn’t enjoyment and self-worth go only so far?

Since my plate is rather full with changing the world in other way, mind if I delegate this one…say…to you?