Can we all just appreciate the crowd here? they deserved to have this massive crowd on their back...most of the paralympic games didnt have a lot of people watching on the stadium but london 2012 is just WOW...their crowd in the paralympic is just like olympics... well done london..hope they can host another olympic and paralympic games..their support is extraordinary
I had the pleasure of attending the paralympics in 2012. It was honestly the best day of my life until that point (I was 16). The atmosphere was absolutely electric, I hope that we see more para championships with this level of engagement. I think London made a huge deal of the paralympics and we all knew it was happening and wanted to go, more country hosts need to put para sport on the same pedestal as able bodied sports with advertising etc. It's truly amazing to watch
yeah, the blocks are vital for a sprint, unfortunately he chose to use longer prosthetics which i assume couldnt work as well with the blocks, so he chose to go without
Not to undermine their skill and effort, but those kind of prosthetics they have are in some ways superior to normal human legs when it comes to pure speed like that. Hypothetical Usain Bolt, assuming he'd get used to legs like that, could smash his own record.
@Philip Tucker They actually don't if you consider the physics behind sprinting. The key is to be in the air the least amount of time,those "blades" increase their air time because of the design. So learn about what you're talking about before you discredit those who don't have a leg or 2.
Don't make fun of anyone of these athletes. They are all in this race for a reason. The Chinese man had no muscle in his right calf. Stop with the hate comments. Imagine if you were in these guy's positions. They are all insanely fast. Some of the fastest men in the world. Even with their impairments.
Shrimp Man Fastest in their league, yes. But fastest in their league none the less. All runners have different biological hardware. Personally, I believe that no one can be denied “fastest man on earth”, just because they were forced to have a prosthetic. Why don’t we just relegate the fastest human without disability, as exactly that. “The fastest person without a disability”. We do we have to make the person with a disability “The fastest person with a disability”, but “Since you have a disability, you can’t be the fastest person in the world”. It’s bs. If the fastest sprinter is on wheels, let them be on wheels. The fastest 2 natural legged person can take an appropriate title. I’m even fine with trans people taking the best “Women” wrestler. Biological women can take “Best non-trans women wrestler”. Because by technicality, they aren’t the best by some standards. Just like how the trans person isn’t the best by some standards. If you get second, you still got second. And if the person played by the rules, it’s too bad that they beat you. You’ll have to take the less good title cause you lost.
For the new people who are watching this. The reason why Liu is in the competition because he was diagnosed with polio when he was a kid which caused his right leg to have a smaller muscle mass than the left. @4:15 you can visually see the difference between his calf muscles.
I once trained in a stadium where a lot of our countries paralymics participants practiced. Let's just say that I got a totally new appreciation for these guys, when once I sprinted, and this guy without legs was on the lane beside me and overtook me with about double the speed that I had. Just like whoosh.
One day in the future, when disabled athletes are competing in full cyborg mech exoskeleton suits, the Paralympics will then become more popular than the regular Olympics
Can't believe from summer it will be 10 years since London 2012!🎉🎉🎉 What a crowd, this definitely did change the attention of para-sport, the way they're just screaming for Jonnie Peacock at his first games before the race is awesome! Hope we can get a crowd like this in the Olympic Park in the summer celebrations
The Paralympics already is very popular in the UK (well we did come up with the idea as they grew out of the Stoke Mandavile games), we are just waiting for the rest of the world to realise it as well. When the IPC world athletics championships were held in London a few years after London 2012 it was so well attended many athletes from different competing nations were asking if London could be the perminant home as they had been used to competing in almost empty stadiums not the almost full house London had.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم . تحية و تقديرا لهذا العالم الذى اخترع هذه القطعة المكملة التعويضية لذوى الحاجات فله من العالم أجمع كل التقدير و الاحترام , و جائزة ( البرهان النبيل )
YOOOOOOO, I just realized this, the dude Blake Leeper, he was in this game show on Netflix called “Awake”, he is in ep 4 of that show Damn that’s crazy, he had said that he lost his legs and that he is an athlete, but I never knew he was in the paralympics.
Wow this video really inspires the viewer who watched this game. Just like the normal player who joined the game the Paralympic athletes has the same rule that they followed.
