"Paralympic"......... Well ! trust me, it's not a new word in the dictionary. People familiar with sports might be able to tell, but for many outside the domain, it's a tough one.
Now change this to Olympics and millions would tell you that it's the mother of all sporting action. Go back little less than a month, every morning mainline dailies were having a field day with all that reportage from Beijing. Every single sport was covered and every medalist was profiled within the sports columns.
Brilliant job done I say. Kudos! to all those sports editors. But what happened immediately after that? You guys seemed to have completely turned blind. Lost out on an opportunity to talk about the real men and women, who contested at the Paralympic, Beijing 08. Good old, ever dependable Wikipedia, describes these games as a multi - sport events for athletes with physical, mental and sensorial disabilities. The truth is, these less fortunate athletes are as good as anybody.
Despite their shortcomings and mind you some extremely painful one's, these fabulous, courageous sportsmen and women, compete with tremendous commitment. Behind every athlete there's a great story, a story which will move you to tears.
Alas! our editorial friend's seem to believe otherwise. Someone has rightly said "the newspapers is not about news but about building numbers".
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