Wheelchairs in TDF?

And they affect you how...

luv2run wrote:

And they affect you how...

The same way rolling a wheelchair athlete out to the batters box in the middle of the World Series would nitwit.

We have either a troll or an idiot on our hands. Allowing wheelchair athletes at Boston does nothing to harm anyone at all and serves as an outlet for disabled athlets to compete. It's a good thing.

Mtn Dew wrote:

We have either a troll or an idiot on our hands. Allowing wheelchair athletes at Boston does nothing to harm anyone at all and serves as an outlet for disabled athlets to compete. It's a good thing.

Ah yes. Don't answer the question in the first post and then decide that said poster is either an idiot or a troll when that post is not responded to properly.

That's helpful.

It's also not harmful to have said wheelchair athlete show up at home plate during the WS or wheel out to play safety during the Super Bowl yet that is not and certainly would not be accepted as a "good thing" if it were to occur. So why is it accepted having athletes in what is basically a completely different sport "competing" along with the runners in the Boston Marathon? Should we have Jeff Gordon rev up the engines simply because the streets happen to be available that day....and show it as part of the TV coverage....and pay it even a small amount of attention during said TV coverage?

Herbie the Luv Bug wrote:

Ah yes. Don't answer the question in the first post and then decide that said poster is either an idiot or a troll when that post is not responded to properly.

That's helpful.

It's also not harmful to have said wheelchair athlete show up at home plate during the WS or wheel out to play safety during the Super Bowl yet that is not and certainly would not be accepted as a "good thing" if it were to occur. So why is it accepted having athletes in what is basically a completely different sport "competing" along with the runners in the Boston Marathon? Should we have Jeff Gordon rev up the engines simply because the streets happen to be available that day....and show it as part of the TV coverage....and pay it even a small amount of attention during said TV coverage?

The wheelchair athletes don't start at the same time as the others. A better analogy would be having a wheelchair game of football a few hours before the SuperBowl started.

The wheelchair athletes don't compete against the runners, they compete against other wheelchair athletes. It's just a lot more feasible to have wheelchair athletes compete the same course on the same day at about the same time b/c it makes things a lot easier that way.

You don't seem to have a point to your rant, you just seem angry but I can't really understand why. Are you mad that wheelchair athletes get to do Boston on the same day as the runners or that wheelchair athletes get coverage?

Herbie the Luv Bug wrote:

How come we don't have a TDF wheelchair division which TV coverage wastes time on? There is no reason to allow them in the Boston Marathon or any other roadracing event.

Because it is highly unlikely that anyone in a wheelchair could complete the TdF. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like it would be virtually impossible to climb an HC climb powered by your arms and no gears. If you changed from a wheelchair to a arm powered bike, you'd have to have ridiculous gearing on the bike and it would probably put you out of the time limits to finish some of the long days in the mountains.

So maybe that's why they don't have a wheelchair division in the TdF.

And I think some of the other posters have given you reasons why they should be allowed in the Boston Marathon and other road racing events.

There's a dark part of me that hopes that you are in a car accident and lose the use of your legs. Then maybe you'll be able to come up with some reasons for allowing wheelchairs in athletic events.