Might be a very basic example but: I would assume that someone with 2 arms will swim faster than 1 arm and someone without legs will swim very differently than someone without arms.
How do they take this into account to decide who gets gold etc.
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In wheelchair basketball,
Players have a rating of 1.0-4.5 points for their disability level
And teams must only have 14points per team
There are ten different categories of impairment, and you compete in whichever one you “qualify” for. The ten categories are: impaired muscle power, impaired passive range of motion, loss of limb/limb deficiency, leg-length difference, short stature, hypertonic, ataxia, athetosis, visual impairment, and intellectual disabilities.
Within the ten categories, there are further divisions regarding the severity of the impairment that affect who you compete against. There’s a whole classification system that decides how impaired you are, and you’ll be sorted accordingly. They typically try to have it be as equal as possible; the Paralympics is not a free for all competition.
Every sport has made modifications to their rules for players with disabilities.
The Rules of Golf were modified over the last few years to cover Modifications for Players with Disabilities.
Here is the overview from what is now Rule 25 in the rules:
Rule 25 applies to all competitions, including all forms of play. It is a player’s category of disability and eligibility that determine whether they can use the specific modified Rules in Rule 25.
Rule 25 modifies certain Rules for players in the following categories of disability:
• Players who are blind (which includes certain levels of vision impairment),
• Players who are amputees (which means both those with limb deficiencies and those who have lost a limb),
• Players who use assistive mobility devices, and
• Players with intellectual disabilities.
It is recognized that there are many players with other types of disabilities (such as players with neurological conditions, players with orthopaedic conditions, players of short stature and players who are deaf). These additional categories of disability are not covered in Rule 25 as, to date, no requirement has been identified for modification of the Rules of Golf for these players.
In swimming they group you according to how much your disability impacts you. Sometimes they won’t have enough people competing in a single disability division – in this case the person who wins isn’t the person who touches the wall first, it’s the person who gets closest to the world record in their division
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