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[edit] Skateboarding

Wheelchair skateboarding is a fast growing area of disabled sports. Athletes such as Tyler Dieth and Aaron Fotheringham and Darwin Holmes have brought the sport to international attention and many young disabled people are picking up on it. While there is an article on Aaron in Wiki, there is nothing about wheelchair skateboarding. I would like to propose that there is a mention here in disabled sports about it, with links to skateboarding and to some well known participants.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.222.71.194 (talk • contribs) 14:43, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I'll add it under other sports; it isn't part of the official Paralympic movement yet. This is a very general article with no specific detail on any sports or athletes; that information should go in an article on the sport. I think it's a good candidate for an article, but I haven't got the knowledge to write it. Perhaps you could create an account and make the page yourself? - Eron ^Talk 23:54, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I dont mind writing the article, but I really haven't got the time to learn the wiki do's and don'ts. I know it can be very strict. I suggest that I write an article and when ready, I will leave you a note here and we can communicate further by email for editing. Let me know if you agree.

[edit] Olympics response

The section at the end is (inadvertantly, probably) written a little unfairly to the Olympic Games. It should be clear that the controversies are over the adaptations involved--that they allege that certain equipment or measures provide an advantage to the disabled athlete, and they feel they'd rather exclude the adaptation if they're not sure it doesn't. Writing things like, including disabled athletes remains controversial, makes them look like some sort of supervillains or something. And it's demonstrably false--they have approved certain adaptations, like visual cues for timed events and so forth (anothe thing that isn't mentioned here). I agree they should do more, but this just isn't an informative way to write the section.205.212.73.217 12:03, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't think that the statement "including disabled athletes remains controversial" makes anyone look bad; it is a sourced statement that simply points out that there is controversy around inclusion. I don't see the unfairness. And I think the question of inclusion is more about including events for persons with disabilities - where they compete against each other - than it is about including persons with disabilities in events with able-bodied persons. - Eron ^Talk 14:01, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] are the sports disabled??

naming it "disabled sports" means the sports are disabled, not the athletes. is this really the term used??--Sonjaaa (talk) 19:33, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely. This is the most commonly used term, at least in U.S. English, to talk about sports for people with disabilities. "Adaptive sports" is also used (and probably sounds better according to your line of thinking), but it is less common.

Charolastra charolo (talk) 19:53, 14 January 2008 (UTC)