tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387284174922871714.post8887306405166039616..comments2024-01-27T00:32:05.370+00:00Comments on Paul Canning: Forgotten heroespaulocanninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499916652508144662noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387284174922871714.post-22660223511231868942008-09-18T11:09:00.000+01:002008-09-18T11:09:00.000+01:00It hasn't been headline news - but I've ce...It hasn't been headline news - but I've certainly noticed that BBC News 24 seems to lead with in for their sports stories.<br><br>I tend to turn off at the first mention of sport, but I noticed it on the main news bulletins.Terence Edenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10270360564522859892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387284174922871714.post-42388844576669071142008-09-16T23:45:00.000+01:002008-09-16T23:45:00.000+01:00I don't think that's quite it. It's be...I don't think that's quite it. It's because the 'news' deciders don't care. People aren't interested simply because people haven't a clue that this quite amazing UK success story is happening.<br><br>Ya would think us coming second *ahead of the USA (never mind Australia) in anything would be 'news'.<br><br>Your general point is completely correct but this is part of the Olympics, it says something for the 'news' deciders that more isn't made of this.Paul Canninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499916652508144662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387284174922871714.post-35671664386013468232008-09-16T23:10:00.000+01:002008-09-16T23:10:00.000+01:00...because nobody cares.Bluntly, that's the tr......because nobody cares.<br><br>Bluntly, that's the truth. People are interested in the <em>best</em> athletes, not 'athletes who do quite well, considering'.<br><br>Obviously, you know I'm no disablist, but that is pretty much the reason. It's the same reason women's football gets little coverage: no-one is interested. They want to see the best football, the best athletics and so on. <br><br>Although the paralympics throws up a question for debate...<br><br>If you have a genotype/injury which is classed as a specific 'disorder', you get your own event category.<br><br>If you have a genotype/injury which means you are ungainly and unathletic, but not disabled, you don't get to compete in the main olympics because your genes mean that you aren't good enough; but you don't get to compete in the paralympics either.<br><br>Why does someone with CP get a specific event, but someone with a bad knee doesn't? A person with a bad knee can't be expected to compete equally against those without - so why don't they get the 'bad knee 200m'?<br><br>Or are disabled people 'special'?<br>:-)JackPhttp://www.thepickards.co.uknoreply@blogger.com