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Meyrick Jones: The main question being asked here cuts to the core of most Paralympic angst... The Question: What is special about the P...

Tony Chin: Perspective from the sideline: Ask any of the volunteers from the 2010 OWG and 2010 PWG if they would do it again and overwhe...

Lelainia Lloyd: I find this blog post utterly fascinating. It's interesting to me that in the interest of "keeping things fair" there seems t...

Andrea: Thanks for sharing your research with us Laura! Very interesting....

Youth Fit 2 Lead: A well presented blog that discusses a very important ethical issue! We think that, while Pistorius’ successes should be ge...

Andrea: Hmmm... good question Robert. My answer - although someone might have a better one - is that no it is not possible to use the...

Laura Dahlstrom: I am one of the presenters from the Tucker Centre conference Andrea mentioned in an earlier post… I am a Master’s student...

Robert: Using the percentage system, is it actually possible to calculate precisely how disadvantaged a skier is based on the percent...

Amy Alsop: Well one thing is for certain, this is a very tricky issue. Yes in Goalball we wear goggles to level the playing field. Obv...

Courtney: Blacked out glasses are absolutely a terrible idea! I don't need to have a "rule" take away my sight. I think the current IPC...

Andrea: Good point! I was trying to figure out last night why the use of black out glasses seems to be more widely accepted in some s...

Andrea: I've raced as a guide using the percentage system - I can't tell you Courtney's perspective on it - hopefully she'll join in...

Ryan Van Praet: I disagree with the option to just "buy the smallest pair of glasses and look around them".... for SOME athletes, this is pe...

Meyrick Jones: Looking around the glasses seems to be an obvious, and even natural, thing to do... When rules are that easy to sidestep...

Adze: At the last ITU races the B3 athletes looked over or under there glasses, making them useless. This is legal because the rule...

Adze: As a coach of a B1 para-athlete and cyclist I can’t agree with you. There is a big divergence between having some sight and...

Goalballer7: Goalball is designed to make you use your hearing. It is a uneqic sport! However to blindfold everyone cause you cant be both...

Meyrick Jones: I know this one has caused a lot of controversy. Hopefully we will get to hear from both sides on this forum. The black-o...

Larry Cooper: You're right about my position on most of these debates. I see our reverence for elite athletes as a hindrance to mass parti...

Andrea: Larry - you make some really interesting points - if I remember correctly you made a similar (or related) argument on an earl...

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