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We have the fastest Paralympian on the Planet

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  • #52
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    Whats better than winning a gold medal in the paralympics?
    Not being retarded


  • #53
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,101 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Grimebox wrote: »
    Whats better than winning a gold medal in the paralympics?
    Not being retarded

    That's the special olympics you are thinking about. Who's the retard now.


  • #54
    RubyRoss
    Registered Users Posts: 302 ✭✭RubyRoss


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Its not exactly an achievement though is it? He's blind, its not like he only has one leg. I watched the 100m final in the Olympics to see the fastest man ever, this guy has all the same muscles etc needed to run the 100m, yet his time couldn't qualify him for the real Olympics.

    He missed out by a fraction of a second. What qualifies as achievement in your book?


  • #55
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    That's the special olympics you are thinking about. Who's the retard now.

    I actually didn't know there was difference till now


  • #56
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    RubyRoss wrote: »
    He missed out by a fraction of a second. What qualifies as achievement in your book?

    The draw of the olympics is that you are seeing the best in the world. These people are not the best in the world.


  • #57
    Oarrack Bama
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 142 ✭✭Oarrack Bama


    Grimebox wrote: »
    Whats better than winning a gold medal in the paralympics?
    Not being retarded



    Lovely:(


  • #58
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,191 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    The draw of the olympics is that you are seeing the best in the world. These people are not the best in the world.

    Some are the best, some aren't. There were guys in the Olympics running a lot slower than Jason. He also had the 'B' standard, but our great and glorious national olympic committee saw fit not to send him.

    To put Jason in context, he's Ireland's second fastest man ever.


  • #59
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Some are the best, some aren't. There were guys in the Olympics running a lot slower than Jason. He also had the 'B' standard, but our great and glorious national olympic committee saw fit not to send him.

    To put Jason in context, he's Ireland's second fastest man ever.

    None of them are the best, none of them will break any proper world records. Ireland have no proper, world class 100m men. So in context, being 2nd fastest means nothing.


  • #60
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,191 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    None of them are the best, none of them will break any proper world records. Ireland have no proper, world class 100m men. So in context, being 2nd fastest means nothing.

    To be fair, very few people break world records. That isn't the measure of world class. And maybe being second fastest Irishman of all-time means nothing to you but it means a lot to everyone who has anything to do with athletics in the country.


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  • #61
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Mod:

    Grimebox don't post in this thread again.

    Infracted.


  • #62
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    Ok


  • #63
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    hehe.

    banned.


  • #64
    splendid101
    Registered Users Posts: 655 ✭✭✭splendid101


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    I've already been through this petty sh1te with clowns from the last thread. I've competed in cross country and middle distance track, I'm not an arm chair observer. I never bloody questioned Jason Smyths ability anywhere I just pointed out that he would be better served dropping the paras and trying to run for the real team full time. Whether that be GB or Ireland considering he's a Derry boy.


    Why does he have to drop the paralympics? He runs in able bodied races too.


  • #65
    flyswatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭flyswatter


    I wonder is he faster than Paul Hession, could well be.


  • #66
    wintersolstice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭wintersolstice


    al28283 wrote: »
    It gets a little hard to be proud of Irish people when our media claims pretty much everyone who has an Irish great grandfather or someone who visited Ireland in 1962 as Irish and take credit for everything they've done. It just gets sad.
    I cant get excited about the paralympic team because most of them seem to be from the north and as far as i am concerned they should be competing for the uk.surely we have enough proper southern irish to make up the team.


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