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Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games?
#14295107 - 04/15/11 11:25 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Samuel L Jackson
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: PreparationH]
#14295148 - 04/15/11 11:35 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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fewer muscles to get tired, less sources of pain.
no
especially if they have one of those fake legs that kinda looks like a recurve bow.
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: Samuel L Jackson]
#14295193 - 04/15/11 11:46 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Nope I completely agree I just want to get a big group of voters to use it on my paper, make it look like I did thangs to deserve the grade.
I just had a class where we had to discuss our papers and I was surprised at the amount of opposition I received when I said they should not be able to compete in the olympics. Most seemed to think they were at a severe disadvantage but I dunno, I agree with you, I think they have a bit of an advantage and also those things add a spring to their "step"
Here's actually an article FOR letting them in professional sports but the arguments used I believe actually help my argument for keeping them out, if you're interested: http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3357051
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: PreparationH]
#14295233 - 04/15/11 11:53 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: Dunno]
#14295456 - 04/15/11 12:43 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm sorry to do this but could you all click this link and just re-enter your answers? Takes a whole 2 seconds 
http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/Poll/Embed/WEB22C8VWEBAVX?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4da8907c000a7eff%2C0
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: PreparationH]
#14295467 - 04/15/11 12:44 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Poor Ting Ting.
Look up Kat Williams - ting ting ( on youtube )
It talks about this. and it's pretty funny.
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: Eshu]
#14295570 - 04/15/11 01:13 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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yes, they should.
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: pouihi]
#14295598 - 04/15/11 01:22 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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No, Nothing performance enhancing like that should be allowed. Say someone loses their legs then gets some crazy advanced robotic legs that allow them to run faster than any normal human. That is not fair. They should have a seperate Olympics for robocops.
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: PreparationH]
#14295606 - 04/15/11 01:24 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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PreparationH said: Nope I completely agree I just want to get a big group of voters to use it on my paper, make it look like I did thangs to deserve the grade.
Oh it's for you, I was not going to vote "no" on some random website, but in this case what the hell.
Yeah those mutants can run faster with them fancy spring board legs.
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: 4runner] 2
#14295608 - 04/15/11 01:25 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I think a special super Olympics would be cool with people who are half robot and shit.
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: Tangerines]
#14295629 - 04/15/11 01:30 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I think you've got something there.
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: Tangerines]
#14295632 - 04/15/11 01:30 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Tangerines said: No, Nothing performance enhancing like that should be allowed.
I understand what you are getting at... But even working out and exercising is 'performance enhancing'. You dont get to be an olympic athlete without performance enhancement. Arbitrarily drawing a line of what is acceptable and what is unacceptable performance enhancement seems a little silly to me. But then, the olympics in general seem silly to me so I voted no.
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: Eshu]
#14295646 - 04/15/11 01:33 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Eshu said: Poor Ting Ting.
Look up Kat Williams - ting ting ( on youtube )
It talks about this. and it's pretty funny. 
That was the first place my mind went too!
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: uber_aj]
#14295677 - 04/15/11 01:37 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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at first I thought "well as long as they can compete, why not?" thinking that they would be at an obvious disadvantage. Then I read SLJ's comment and I had to vote no. Although, I can't say for sure that having less muscle means you can perform better. I know what you mean about there being more muscle to get tired but at the same time that's more muscle to help you be faster & stronger.
I still vote no
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: DieCommie]
#14295695 - 04/15/11 01:41 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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DieCommie said:
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Tangerines said: No, Nothing performance enhancing like that should be allowed.
I understand what you are getting at... But even working out and exercising is 'performance enhancing'. You dont get to be an olympic athlete without performance enhancement. Arbitrarily drawing a line of what is acceptable and what is unacceptable performance enhancement seems a little silly to me. But then, the olympics in general seem silly to me so I voted no.
yea, but look at the fake leg i posted. that shit makes you able to run really fast.
its automatic enhancement that people cant achieve naturally. that fake leg never gets tired. it always has the same spring to its step.
when someone is "performance enhancing" their natural body, it becomes a competition of who has the most athletic body which can endure the most physical punishment. when you allow people to use something that isnt naturally there and doesnt get worn out by physical activity, it changes the whole game.
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: Samuel L Jackson]
#14295708 - 04/15/11 01:43 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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DieCommie said:
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Tangerines said: No, Nothing performance enhancing like that should be allowed.
I understand what you are getting at... But even working out and exercising is 'performance enhancing'. You dont get to be an olympic athlete without performance enhancement. Arbitrarily drawing a line of what is acceptable and what is unacceptable performance enhancement seems a little silly to me. But then, the olympics in general seem silly to me so I voted no.
yea, but look at the fake leg i posted. that shit makes you able to run really fast.
its automatic enhancement that people cant achieve naturally. that fake leg never gets tired. it always has the same spring to its step.
when someone is "performance enhancing" their natural body, it becomes a competition of who has the most athletic body which can endure the most physical punishment. when you allow people to use something that isnt naturally there and doesnt get worn out by physical activity, it changes the whole game.
does it make you faster? I've seen people run with those on but I've never seen them race someone with legs.
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: Anthony917]
#14295714 - 04/15/11 01:45 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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fuck that. we would wind up with robots in the olympics.
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: Anthony917]
#14295716 - 04/15/11 01:46 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: PreparationH]
#14295718 - 04/15/11 01:46 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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But there's a potential slippery slope here: What about things like elective surgeries? My lasik surgery got my vision better than normal (15/20). In 30 years would we disqualify athletes with enhanced vision surgeries?
Anthony Robles just won the NCAA wrestling national title and he's only got one leg. It makes him really awkward to handleand allows his weight distribution to go to his upper body, making him stronger.
What if an athlete got some weird futuristic stem-cell transplant to grow super enlarged testicles and increase his testosterone levels? There are bound to be all sorts of intersting questions about who is excluded from sports, especially with the copious amounts of money involved.
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Re: Should disabled athletes be able to compete with prosthetic legs in The Olympic Games? [Re: s0nny]
#14295726 - 04/15/11 01:47 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Bionic Olympics yo. Nununununu
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