Paralympics

[d000hg]

The suits aided buoyancy however the design of the pool also increased the speed and as a result something like 46 WR were broken in that pool.

Yes that was a fun one to watch. I didn't know they'd since banned the suits though - seems a bit harsh on any would-be record-breaker.

[TimberWolf]

But if you have legs, you wouldn't maybe get the same advantage with the attachments so it's still not level. It would only be level if able-bodied athletes were allowed to have their lower legs cut off.

It isn't level. If it were level there would be no winner. Someone has to have longer legs or bigger muscles or some other advantage unless the winner is to be randomly determined.

[TimberWolf]

What I'd like to see isn't specific to the handicapped, it would be open to anyone including the handicapped. Any mechanical device that is entirely human powered within loose parameters, such as that the mode of moving would involve a stepping motion. The opposite of what we see in cycling where everything is strictly controlled to the nth degree. That way we might see advances in technology and see a great mechanical spectacle. Imagine a race of giant springy steppy machines. Awesome. A race of machines, though you'd need the best humans too. Swim suits of any slippery design would be welcome, even in the swimming races.

Is it so different than ending up with basketball players that are 7 foot tall and cyclists who have arms like spaghetti? All a bit unfair to the vertically challenged or normals isn't it? Not that the latter would win mechanical races either, but hey, winning isn't fair.

[TimberWolf]

In any case even if people don't like the aesthetics of competing mechanical machines, I would still like to know how fast someone can propel themselves up a track on springs in the least amount of time, how fast they can run a marathon and how high they can jump and swim using only their own human energy. No pre storage of energy, in the same way a pole in the pole vault can't be primed, and is powered only by the kinetic energy of the runner at the time of the event.

[Doggy Styles]

What I'd like to see isn't specific to the handicapped, it would be open to anyone including the handicapped. Any mechanical device that is entirely human powered within loose parameters, such as that the mode of moving would involve a stepping motion. The opposite of what we see in cycling where everything is strictly controlled to the nth degree. That way we might see advances in technology and see a great mechanical spectacle. Imagine a race of giant springy steppy machines. Awesome. A race of machines, though you'd need the best humans too. Swim suits of any slippery design would be welcome, even in the swimming races.

Is it so different than ending up with basketball players that are 7 foot tall and cyclists who have arms like spaghetti? All a bit unfair to the vertically challenged or normals isn't it? Not that the latter would win mechanical races either, but hey, winning isn't fair.

I think you've gone slightly mad TW

[TimberWolf]

I think you've gone slightly mad TW

Not mad enough for CUK.

And yet you don't bat an eyelid where mechanical device are currently in use. The pole in pole vault, boats in rowing, crossbows in arrow throwing contests, cycling, bobsleighing. All man plus machine events. And there are even animal assisted events.

[SueEllen]

Not mad enough for CUK.

And yet you don't bat an eyelid where mechanical device are currently in use. The pole in pole vault, boats in rowing, crossbows in arrow throwing contests, cycling, bobsleighing. All man plus machine events. And there are even animal assisted events.

Watching the male swimmers now. Tight cycling short like trunks.

Though I know they all shave every bit of their bodies that touches the water.