Yeah, they showed the Paris Marathon on tv the other day, and, as you say, one of them went around a square corner too fast, in the first four minutes or so, and rolled, badly…

They have to have sentries (appropriately, lol) or rather stewards, on bikes, riding alongside them, just in case that happens…

Then again, having witnessed someone having to be carted off to hospital during an able-bodied marathon, I would say that distance is probably not good for anyone, if you run it too often, lol.

Sprinters generally seem to be in better health, as do cyclists, provided either are clean…

Back to cp though - watching it is interesting, because it varies so much in severity, that it must be really damn hard to classify them, especially for swimming and running…

Though para-classification is a minefield at the best of times, now that we’ve moved from “amputee sports” to “any and every disability, including invisible ones”…

Edit: I used to know a girl with cystic fibrosis, who based… Much of her identity around being a wheelchair. The day that I realized that she could walk, unsupported, just with difficulty, was quite a revelation…

Like, I get why she needed the wheelchair, but to have so much of your identity be “Look at me, I’m doing so much despite my chair”, and then get up and walk across the room, while tipsy - I found that a bit disconcerting, tbh, lol…