View Poll Results: should people that can walk participate in wheelchair races?

you have legs that work, stick to foot races

38.89%

sport is sport, nothing wrong with using your arms.

61.11%

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is it wrong...

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Nov 12, 2008 | 03:22 PM

ISP James

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is it wrong...

for a "capable" person to participate in a wheel chair race?

Nov 12, 2008 | 03:24 PM

lil_1_2002

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people actually do that?

Nov 12, 2008 | 03:27 PM

ISP James

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i dont know but those wheelchair dudes are freakin jacked... i wouldnt imagine that anybody who can walk/run would have any advantages...

Nov 12, 2008 | 03:28 PM

k3ifers

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if it's like this..

yeh, why not?

if it's like this..

no.

Nov 12, 2008 | 03:32 PM

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Nov 12, 2008 | 03:35 PM

THEOLDMAN

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ISP James

i dont know but those wheelchair dudes are freakin jacked... i wouldnt imagine that anybody who can walk/run would have any advantages...

You would not believe the upper body strength some of them have. When I was working at one of the hotels we hired a wheelchair bound ex-cop (he was shot in the back on the job) as a consultant for an accessibility study/plan for meeting new codes. What this guy could lift was amazing and how he could maneuver with just his hands and arms was something else. Anyone that wasn't always in a wheelchair wouldn't have stood a chance against him moving one around.

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