Re: A question I cannot figure out the answer to
Posted: Sat 11 Jul, 2009 23.10
Classy isn't she.Alexia wrote:'It is time to suggest that these so-called Paralympics . . . are - well, one hesitates to say "grotesque". One will only say "perverse"…Surely physical competition is about finding the best - the fastest, strongest, highest, all that. It is not about finding someone who can wobble his way around a track in a wheelchair, or who can swim from one end of a pool to the other by Braille.....In other words, Stephen Hawking shows his wisdom by staying out of the three-legged race.'
- Mary Ellen Synon