Sarah Storey Winning Fifteenth Gold Medal At Paralympics, Is It A Level Playing Field?

[dave50]

As far as I know, her only disability is a her left hand and the handle bar of her bike has been adapted to suit. Shouldn't she be competing with able bodied riders? It doesn't seem fair on the others, perhaps I'm missing something. Apart from this I also don't know how they can make things totally fair in some of the sports in the paralympics because disabilities are so varied. I can't help but find some of it rather contrived. Controversial opinion and I know its the paralympics so therefore it must be all good and no criticism is allowed.

[goodgoalie]

Well, reading that link about C5 criteria answers the second question in my first post: she is not competing only against others with one non-functioning hand.

She could be competing against someone with, for example, an amputated foot, an above the elbow amputation (with or without prosthesis), a difference in length between right and left leg of at least 7cm....and several other examples.

To me, that's not a level playing field, in the way that, say, the paralympic wheelchair events are.

[Ken4155]

^
I watched the end of the GB ladies doubles going through to the next round of the wheelchair tennis match earlier this evening. At the end of which, one of our ladies leapt from her wheelchair to embrace her colleague?

[THECORBYLOON]

Which wheelchair events do you mean?