Thursday, 9 October 2008

Disable-sports and paralympics: when the technology gives wings to the athletes


Sport club for people with a handicap is generally a particular field of sport due to hudges differences between motor abilities.
For that reason, it’s raising many debates: different sets of problems about the consideration of disability, equal opportunities, classification of athletes and categories in which they compete.
In order to make possible the concept of sport event, a table between athletes is in consequence necessary. The authorities had put in place diferent plans allowing to take into account the diferent types of deficiencies: categories of events, time and point penalties, etc...

In spite of a system which trying to be the most complete and objective, some abuses reveal its limits.

In particular, there is an ethical question when the performances of athletes with disabilities, helped with technologies, are almost the same than the ones realized by uninjured athletes.








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