Paralympic cyclist Darren Kenny for sports personality of the year
 

He won 4 golds and a silver in the paralympics! What an achievement! more than any of the brits in the actual olympics. I think it would be good for a disabled person to win as they havent really featured in the competition before and why shouldnt he? he has won more gold medals than rebecca adlington and chris hoy who are current faves to win

Because not many people are interested in the Paralympics. Paralympic golds are not as prestigeous as Olympics ones.

well maybe they should be

They are as prestigious. It just so happens the general public is ignorant to such situations.

They shouldn't. There are a lot more able-bodied people than disabled so it's generally much harder to win an Olympic medal.

i think its harder to win a medal in the actual olympics then the paralympics
there is more competion

in the paralympics there are less people in the competions because there is only a limited amount of disabled people who put themselves forward

Chris Hoy/Rebecca Adlington to win.

They're disabled though so they should get special treatment.:rolleyes:

how is it easier to win a medal? they have to compete against as many other athletes just the same. Just because there are less disabled people doesnt make it any easier

They compete against the same amount of athletes, as bbE said.

Plus, markymark - they don't want the supposed "special treatment". They're world class Olympians. You're not.

The level of competition in the able Olympics is a lot higher, purely for the reason that there are less disabled athletes than non-disabled ones. That's just common sense.

there are more athletes in the actual olympics actually

Because it's easier to get there in the first place.

You miss the point totally.

Well that's just obvious.

But the winning of a medal is not made easier for this fact.

Well it is really if you have less athletes to defeat in order to contend for one.

I wouldnt say it was easy for someone with physical disabilities to train to the standard they do

There were several events of the Paralympics where there weren't even heats, just the final. If I remember correctly, the vision-impaired track events had like...4 competitors overall. Not a lot of competition, by any means.

Of course it is. For arguement's sake, able-bodied people have a one in a million chance of getting an Olympic medal, disabled people have a one in ten thousand chance. The world's best athletes compete in the Olympics.

and then they have to beat everyone else there

i woudnt say it was easy for people with no disabilities to train to ther standard they do

But they're only competing against other people in the same situation. No-one said it was "easy".

In the actual contention of the medal, there is the same number of athletes for the medal.

Furthermore;
Able bodied people in the World Vs. Able bodied people competing in the Olympics is lower than the number of Disabled people Vs. Disabled people competing in the Olympics.

Anybody able-bodied can train to the standard of Olympians, whereas disabled athletes have to endure excruciating pain when training, and take the extra step to compete.

The standard is still high... for example. Oscar Pistorius is "good enough" to compete against able-bodied athletes. This would obvious take more effort than that of ablebodied people.

There's also Natalie Du Toit who can also compete in the Olympics.

so are olympic athletes

Steven Gerrard for Sports Personality of the Year.