• Autistic boy disqualified from competition ‘for swimming too fast’
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[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;51442554]Wow that's stupid.[/QUOTE] Imagine heavy weight boxers to legally and officially fight with featherweights over prizes. A bit exaggerated, but yeah. Lurker said it all.
[QUOTE=Tasm;51443799]Well now we know that your autism has depleted[/QUOTE] You never let your tism fully deplete. Everyone knows it has a long cooldown penalty.
[QUOTE=Coment;51444060]Is a 15% improvement impossible to reach by training hard? Just asking.[/QUOTE] Between heats and the final yeah pretty much. [editline]29th November 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Dwarden;51444042]feels like another politically correct style rule ... let's have competition about who is faster, but if you too fast against others or your previous record, then you disqualified ... I feel sorry for the guy cause he tried his best and got pushed away ...[/QUOTE] Wow, brilliant way of not reading anything posted on the thread or not using 2 brain cells to think about why such a rule might exist before mentioning PC. Let's look at it this way: If nothing else, an autistic boy who won a competition was disqualified/just given a participation medal. This is as far away from PC as you can get. But I suppose you're the kind of person who is against weight divisions in boxing or handicaps in golf.
What does him being autistic have to do with anything? What is the link between autism and swimming? [editline]29th November 2016[/editline] I see that he was participating in the Special Olympics, but him being autistic is still irrelevant to do with the subject.
I see that the reason for his disqualification has nothing to do with his autism. This is some classic clickbait.
[QUOTE=Lolkork;51444179]still bullshit, doubt he intentionally cheated. he probably just pushed himself extra hard because it was the final.[/QUOTE] exactly what I said, tons of reasons why he could've performed as he did rush of being a final, extra training, etc.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;51443301]Imagine an endurance race with cars that have several classes running at the same time, but instead of horsepower and weight being what defines which class your car goes in, it's your qualifying lap time. So now imagine a racing Lamborghini intentionally doing his lap 15% slower to be placed with the slower GT cars instead of the McClarens and Ferrari's, and once the race begins, he can just mop the floor because his car's much faster It's like that. Sort of[/QUOTE] This sort of already happened this year. In the WEC, theres a thing called balance of power, you get more weight/air flow restrictions if your car greatly outclasses the others in the same class., it works on multiple factors not just qualifying times though. Ford were accused of exploiting this by sandbagging their cars in order to avoid getting hit by the BoP or making competitors look better than they actually are. In short, it worked and they won their class in the 24 hours of lemans which is the most prestigious race in endurance racing [editline]29th November 2016[/editline] You cant get away with cheating divisions just because you're autistic [editline]29th November 2016[/editline] That is of course if it was their intention.
[QUOTE=Bertie;51444165]I see that the reason for his disqualification has nothing to do with his autism. This is some classic clickbait.[/QUOTE] This happened during the Special Olympics regional finals so it makes sense to include that as a description. I don't get how it's clickbait when it's literally an accurate depiction of the child.
[QUOTE=Crimor;51444043]These for example:[/QUOTE] Neither of those posts are blaming him, but his parents.
[QUOTE=QUILTBAG;51444809]This happened during the Special Olympics regional finals so it makes sense to include that as a description. I don't get how it's clickbait when it's literally an accurate depiction of the child.[/QUOTE] No, it doesn't. It fits in the details of the article to explain where the incident took place, but just the fact that the kid has autism is as relevant as his skin colour, which is to say that it isn't at all. Anyone who sees an article title "Autistic boy disqualified from competition ‘for swimming too fast’" will immediately assume that his autism somehow has to do with his disqualification, and so they will click the article. It's a deliberate choice of words to evoke interest, which could be fine, except in this case it's completely misleading.
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