Para and other lympics

It has become somewhat politically correct to watch the Paralymic Games currently underway in London.  I have a confession to make, I do not watch the Paralymics.  I admit that I find it somewhat perverted to watch people who are physically handicapped struggling to overcome their disability as if they were normal.  Does anyone care who achieves a gold medal if they are disabled and can never reach the levels of performance that normal people can reach.  I understand that it's good for the disabled people themselves to compete and try to do their best, but I feel schadenfreude, taking hidden pleasure that they can't do things as normal people can. 

The Paralympics started in 1948 as the brainchild of Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a German Jewish refugee to England who was a physician at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where cosmetic surgery was started in order to help British servicemen who had been disfigured in  WWII.  Guttmann wanted some way to keep the disabled veterans active, so he thought up the idea of a Parallel Olympic Games, when the Olympics were held in England in 1948.  Did you know that there is also a World Special Olympic Games for people who are mentally challenged, and a Deafalympics for you know who (where you can make as much noise as you like).

I think we should take it to its logical conclusion, why not a homolympics for homosexuals, a lesbolympics for lesbians and a transolympics for transvestites.  Also a blindolympics, a fatolympics and a shortolympics and a tallolympics.  We could also have a Blackolympics for Blacks, but since they outrun the whites why bother. We already have a Jewlympics called the Maccabiah Games, held every 4 years in Israel.  But, that is only designed to show that Jews can be athletes too, and by the way its safer than the Olympics themselves.

The modern Olympic movement is a kind of strange amalgam of pagan and secular and designed to be both nationalist (each country shows its flag and gets its anthem played if they win) and internationalist (all the athletes of the world come together in peace).   If the Islamists ever get their way it will be stopped.  Note that although this was the first time that every national delegation had at least one woman, some of the Muslim countries expected their women to compete in chadors or other full coverings.  Can you imagine doing judo in that (they might even stick in a man to compete and you'd never know).  As the Muslims gradually become civilized they may go through a process of female empowerment, when women will gradually wear less and less in these tournaments.  But, don't count on it.