To start lets clarify that a person with disability does not mean that they can not do something but that they might need some extra time to finish it.
swimming competitively with a disability starts by get classified by a group of judges who stretch the swimmer out to see how fixable they are and then they watch them swim to see how much of a disability a person has or has not and finally they judge swimmer and give them ranking according to their limitations between s1 thru s10. Also a person who is blind gets the same treatment and are judge between sb11 thru sb13 and then you look at rankings chart of times to make provincials, nationals, worlds, or the paralympics.
Swimming can be a very competitive sport and a person with a disability works as hard as a swimmer who is looking to get to the Olympics and can this sometimes drive a swimmer crazy, like me, with lots of frustration with their times and having to work on bettering their strokes constantly to try to get to their goals.
I think that all competitive swimmers are amazing and are working really hard to meet their goals and I think they should keep up the great work and for everybody else instead of thinking about what a person can not do please think about what they can do next time you see a person with a disability.
Tom mehegan
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