All starts today with team gb possesing another strong team.

Also watching another awesome opening ceromony.

Most looking forward to the wheelchair rugby. That will be intresting as well as watching that amazing south african run the 400m.

All to come in beijing 2008

twas a good cermony

power olympics?

isnt it paralympics?

Lol, yes it is

lmao durrrrr

Yeah thats true

2 golds today fr gb so far

wooo none for ireland so far oh wait thats bad

I have to watch it

Some Of The People In The Para Olympics Don't Even Seem To Have Any Needs? Are Some Imposters?


That British Swimmer,,, Grr Cant Reember His Name Got a fabulous gold, He Could Beat Any Normal Olympic Swimmer Any Day

If they didnt have a disablilty then they would have competed in the olympics.....

I doubt any of them are imposters

They All Just Seem Soo Much Better Than Those 'Other' olympic people

lmao @ "other" olympic people


I think you can rest safe in the knowledge that all the athletes are indeed disabled. If there are any cartman wannabes, (that episode where he ran in the special olympics and got hammered by everybody was funny) then they should be shot on sight

About time thread was renamed....

Only took 6 days to rename what was a pretty obvious error in the title!

Maybe people will post here now....

What a wonderfull society we live in, we watch disabled people compete for entertainment

i think its more to do with equality for everybody, disabled or not, to compete in something historic and globally known.

Controversial post though, be interesting to hear if anybody else agress with you.

Its just good to show that you care for those people by watching those people.

Edited at 12:02 Sat 13/09/08 (BST)

Can we stop calling them, them!!! Jesus Mother of Mary!

I think you totally mis-read the Olympic spirit Javen, and I doubt very much any straight thinking. normal human being will agree with you.

Maybe you should google the Olympics and read up so you can understand what it's all about!

Sorry john

Edited

These people are athletes they are "entertainers", it's what they do.

Just because they are disabled shouldn't mean we are not allowed to enjoy watching them compete.

It's entertaining, because it's supposed to be, if they didn't want people to watch them they wouldn't have entered the Olympics...

If anything, what you've said is in the wrong there.

You've said that as if we are allowed to watch and be entertained by people without disabilities, but we aren't allowed to watch and be entertained by people that are disabled.

What is wrong with watching the paralympics and being entertained? It isn't entertaining because they're disabled, it's entertaining for the same reasons that any other sport is entertaining.