#paralympics

Her name is Valentina Petrillo and she is a visually-impaired sprinter.

I would like you to remember that Paralympions are OLYMPIC LEVEL ATHLETES.

How would it feel if I compared your output to that of a literal olympic athlete and used that to justify not helping you or giving you what you need?

Oh, well Michael Phelps and Simone Biles can do it - why can’t you?

Yeah, okay.

This one's just for kicks!

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Olympic committees are really doing everything they can to make Ukraine look like a country without symbols — like a “neutral country” — instead of countries like Russia and Belarus, which should be in that role but are currently competing under their national symbols.

I want to say — then ban Ukrainian bodies altogether.

Ask how people become disabled in our country.

A Russian shell that leaves me without an arm — is that apolitical?

A fragment from Russian destruction that leaves me without an eye — is that outside politics?

Losing my leg to a Russian mine — is that just some natural disaster, like something blown in from Russia by the wind?

Masses of tortured bodies in territories occupied by Russia, which you won’t allow us to show together with the map of our country — is that “political” because it might make Russian Paralympians uncomfortable, since they were the same soldiers?

You are just as “for peace in the world” as those Russians who simply don’t finish the sentence out loud — “without Ukraine”.

And a reminder that the Paralympics are still going on Right NOW- until September 8th!