You can't play with us. If you are handicapped, you are allowed do this but not that. If you are able-bodied, you are allowed to do that but not this and don't ever dream of it. You never mix. In my books, they call this Apartheid.
Basketball is now an adult.
As of June 1999, the Swiss wheelchair basketball teams finally agreed to let able-bodied players compete in the National Championship. First the polio survivors, then the amputees and most other disabilities, and now the able-bodied athletes can play wheelchair basketball. I would say that our favourite sport has at long last grown up. Reg Holmes of Perth, Australia writes. No, not directly, but the change, the move to call more contact was motivated primarily by the desire to provide a more fluid game to the public, a game in which the most gifted players could not have their skills diminished by excessive contact.