Talk:Parasports

message: Wheelchair skateboarding is a fast growing area of disabled sports. Athletes such as Tyler Dieth and Aaron Fotheringham and Darwin Holmes have brought the sport to international attention and many young disabled people are picking up on it. While there is an article on Aaron in Wiki, there is nothing about wheelchair skateboarding. I would like to propose that there is a mention here in disabled sports about it, with links to skateboarding and to some well known participants.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.222.71.194 (talk • contribs) 14:43, 29 December 2006  (UTC)
:I'll add it under other sports; it isn't part of the official Paralympic movement yet. This is a very general article with no specific detail on any sports or athletes; that information should go in an article on the sport. I think it's a good candidate for an article, but I haven't got the knowledge to write it. Perhaps you could create an account and make the page yourself? - Eron Talk 23:54, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Skateboarding

message: The section at the end is (inadvertantly, probably) written a little unfairly to the Olympic Games. It should be clear that the controversies are over the adaptations involved--that they allege that certain equipment or measures provide an advantage to the disabled athlete, and they feel they'd rather exclude the adaptation if they're not sure it doesn't. Writing things like, including disabled athletes remains controversial, makes them look like some sort of supervillains or something. And it's demonstrably false--they have approved certain adaptations, like visual cues for timed events and so forth (anothe thing that isn't mentioned here). I agree they should do more, but this just isn't an informative way to write the section.205.212.73.217 12:03, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think that the statement "including disabled athletes remains controversial" makes anyone look bad; it is a sourced statement that simply points out that there is controversy around inclusion. I don't see the unfairness. And I think the question of inclusion is more about including events for persons with disabilities - where they compete against each other - than it is about including persons with disabilities in events with able-bodied persons. - Eron Talk 14:01, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Olympics response 

message: naming it "disabled sports" means the sports are disabled, not the athletes. is this really the term used??--Sonjaaa (talk) 19:33, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually "disability sport" seems far more common. I hardle ever see "disabled sport" being used by quality sources. Roger (talk) 16:59, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: are the sports disabled??

message: Hello,
I see no real mention of any organization dealing with blind athletes.  Are there any formal organizations for blind athletes?  And are any of these organizations comparable to the "Special Olympics" organizers?  (I must admit that I thought the "Special Olympics" were for all persons with any kind of disability and only recently found out that it was for those with a mental disability.)  
I have only found one or two state level organizations.  If there really isn't anything I remain surprised that this hasn't been dealt with in a more national/international level.
- thank you,
Energywave (talk) 02:02, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sport for blind and visually impaired athletes falls under the category of Paralympic sports and is covered in more detail in that article. Internationally, these athletes are governed by the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA). Blind and visually impaired athletes compete at the Paralympic Games along with other athletes with physical disabilities. They participate in multi-disability sports include athletics, swimming, and cycling, as well as some sports specific to blind and visually impaired athletes such as Goalball, Judo, and Football 5-a-side. - EronTalk 02:28, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: ISBA, International Sports Organization for Disabled (ISOD) and Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA) really need to be in that "Organisation and history" section. CPISRA early history: http://www.cpisra.org.za/overview.html (Add it to my ever-growing To Do list, right? Unless there are other takers?) Sportygeek (talk) 09:41, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports/olympics for the Blind 

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thread_title: Disabled swimmer

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message: I did some work on "India's blade runner" Kiran Kanoji and can't find an article about running blades in general - there's Mechanics of Oscar Pistorius's running blades about OP's blades in particular, and the general Prosthesis which has a section Prosthesis#Oscar_Pistorius within Prosthesis#Prosthetic_enhancement, although that section is more about robotics etc rather than sophisticated blades. There doesn't seem to be anything in the encyclopedia about running blades in general. Am I missing something, or would someone here like to start an article? I've put similar messages at Talk:Mechanics of Oscar Pistorius's running blades, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disability and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Olympics/Paralympics. PamD 07:47, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
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