Paralympics Vs Olympics

Paralympics VS Olympics

By: Luci and Daisy

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!!!This Is An Amazing Para Athlete

That we (Daisy, and Luci) Got To Meet!!!

(so did the rest of our school)

!Meet Matt Debly!

When Matt was a little boy he was diagnosed with a spinal cord issue.

The doctors said he would never walk again, and yet he still tries to walk around his house and he succeeds! When Matt got accepted to his rugby team, he didn’t know much about rugby, but since he is a extremely good in sports, he succeeded in becoming a star athlete!!! He is even in the top twelve best teams!!! He also plays wheelchair basketball, and used to play sledge hockey. He is great at all of these sports and we are sure he is great at many other sports! We are very impressed! We can’t even explain how AMAZING he really is!!!

If you think this is amazing, this is only one of the super, awesome Para-Athlete stories!

The Olympics is a series of big, national and competitive, athletic games. It is one of  the biggest series of sports events of the year. The Paralympics are also a big series of sporting events, but are not normally one of the biggest of the year. Not many people want to watch the paralympics! This is exactly why we are making this blog, because we want to make them equal!

We want to make people with exceptionalities feel even more special. Not too much so they think they are different, but just enough that they think they are just as special or even more! If you think about it paralympians are not only doing what the olympians do, but they are doing it with some sort of physical or mental difference. It is probably even more fun to play wheelchair basketball than basketball.  

About the Paralympics:

The problem is that people don’t care about the paralympics, as much as the olympics! They don’t hold the paralympics where they hold the olympics. The paralympics don’t get as much spotlight as the olympics. The question is why thought? Just because the paralympians play sports with different rules than the olympians does not mean that they can’t get the same amount of attention! Paralympians are just as good as the olympians, maybe even better! They have to practice just as much as the olympians, probably even more!!! It is an outrage!!!

The paralympians have to do the same kind of things as the olympians but in a harder way. To be honest, we think that the paralympians are more interesting than the olympians because they have to do it in a very different way. This makes what they’re doing A LOT more difficult! For instance, if the olympians were to play basketball it’s A LOT easier for the olympians to play than the paralympians. The paralympians have to practice A LOT more than the olympians!!!

If you are an athletic, abled-bodied person and try to play wheelchair  basketball there is a good chance you will look silly compare to wheelchair basketball players. The reason is wheelchair basketball players are extremely GOOD!!!

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