To think the paralympics should be on at the same time as the olympics?

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Seeing as we're supposed to be inclusive nowadays - its seems patronising to me to separate the paralympics so dramatically from the olympics.

Could they be joined together in future?

It'd be a lovely way to do it, and if they could ever find a way for it to be possible i'd be great. Sadly there's too many things they have to do to adapt at the moment, hence the quite large gap between the two. Shame though

Completely separate events though. It would be like joining the Olympics with the commonweath games - the names sound the same but there is no connection between the two organising committees.

I know what you're saying, but I expect there is a lot of adaptation of venues that has to take place between the Olympics and Paralympics. Some venues are used for completely different sports which must mean that they have to do stuff like change the court markings, etc.

How about most of the athletes don't want to be joined with the plympics.

They are not the same event, they are two separate events that just happen to be hosted by the same country for the sake of convenience, it hasn't always been that way. They have separate organizing committees and symbols and traditions and unique and very different histories.

They are two different events and it would be logistically impossible to run then at the same time

Completely logistically impossible. And quite unwanted by participants and organisers I reckon.

And those that do want to compete in both have done so as they qualified times wise.

There are some issues.

There would need to be a bigger accommodation block.
Adjusting camera heights and other equipment was part of the reason for the gap - it would be harder to manage both from a practical point of view.
The Olympics would be likely to overshadow the Paralympics - there are more well known Olympians than Paralympions, and the media coverage would be weighted accordingly.
The time taken for the athletes parading round the track would be significantly increased.

I'm not sure. I think that the Paralympians deserve their own focus, to be the headline rather than the supporting act. I am all for inclusivity, but sometimes it's okay to be separate.

Sorry that should be Olympics in mys first post not plympics.

-They are two seperate events with different origins
-There would not be enough room in the Olympic village to accomodate all the althletes at the same time.
-Everyone would have to stay for 4 weeks instead of 2
-Many of the events need adaptations to the venue for the paralympians
-Many paralympians enjoy having their own event

erm I think thats it!

thank you -

I didn't realise these thing. It makes better sense now.

the reason its 2 weeks apart is they have to adjust everything theres no way it could be run alongside each other unless you doubled the size of all the arenas and rooms etc.