Taboo musing: itโs easier to win an Olympic medal in paralympics. Ok hear me out, in regular olympics, there are billions of able bodied people and only 1 set of medals per event. But for paralympics, the pool of potential competitors is less and there are many medals per event due to categories. So para athletes have a statistically better chance at being selected and wining a medal.
The level above "average" of the community that you need to be to get a medal might be lower, but the base level of difficulty they have to start at is much higher. Just navigating day to day life with a disability is a challenge, and the process of travelling overseas to compete would for many be a huge undertaking.
In a lot of ways the method of separating out a lot of categories is fairer at rewarding effort over genetic endowment. We do this somewhat in other sports, like weightlifting or boxing where we have different weight categories. But you can have the most amazing basketball skills in the world, but if you are 5 ft tall you won't be competitive. In reality the pool of potential competitors is restricted to the much smaller group who are really tall. So whilst you can say that the pool of "potential competitors" is every able bodied person, the reality is that the pool is only a small number of people who have the approproate genetic endowment to be in the top group. The narrowing of the selection pool is not as visible as in the paralympics and might be seen as "natural selection" rather than externally imposed, but it is still there.
I think you may have a point. I wonder what the funding breakdown is for athletes at the Paralympics vs the regular Olympics.
Maybe you get more funding as well so it's easier to stay focused on your training in the 4 years between
I can hear the maggies carolling
40/50 - some lucky guesses.
25/50
I got all of them wrong except number 1 until the cricket one, I got the cricket man and the rest right. Not a great score, but I was expecting a 5, so that made me happy
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I'll have a pork bahn mi served at 12:30pm today please.
Cat rambles
This happened a few days ago. Melbcat spat medicine on herself so I removed her collar to clean her upโฆ found a small hidden patch of slight matting where her tags rub.
Completely unexpected since the collar is quite loose, I check to ensure it isnโt rubbing her skin and give her scritches, and she has short hair that she independently keeps well groomed. But she canโt reach that spot between chest and neck. It was lower and to the side, created and hidden by the tags. And she normally doesnโt like me to brush her. I carefully snipped out a small piece with round tipped kitchen scissors and combed out the rest.
Iโve left her collar off for the moment but stressing about it.
Melbcat is an inside kitty but I still prefer her to be wearing her ID and name tags at all times in case she door dashesโฆ but perhaps as a more comfortable compromise I could get a collar with her info embroidered on. Or maybe just buy a cheap soft collar and Sharpie it on. Just for her to wear as โpyjamasโ around the house.
Other considerations are a smaller softer brush to get at her chest/neck fur with, a bib for medicine time, and a more washable collar.
aw, poor kitty.
I used to trim Allie's fur when she was sick and couldn't look after herself well.
( damn, it still hurts a bit to think of her being so ill ๐ข)
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