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Originally Posted by tranza
Lol, I wouldn't believe if I saw a man in a wheelchair trying to rob a bank...
I mean, how fast can he scape afterwards??
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Well some FYI just well because one should never under estimate a gimp. PS I was not at nor near Stanford at this time.
1980 the Boston Marathon world record was beaten by 31 minutes not by a professional marathoner who had held the record but by a guy in a wheelchair. But well that is only 26.2 miles in an hour and fifty five minutes. However there are hills both up and down so that's not to fair as that area is pretty flat. PS. That record has been beaten a few times by people in chairs and the fastest times are always way ahead of the abled bodied runners. If I recall it is down near an hour and thirty.
In reality most sports authorities and judges do not feel its fair for the wheelchair bound to compete against able bodied individuals. In general wheelchair times are faster than foot times for almost all events. (I am guessing we suck at hurdles, that hop, skip, jump thing, long jump and such. Then again amputee's have killed in those areas so oops again.) Hell try to find another woman or hell even a man that is able bodied to do a 1,500 meter in 3:30.6 I am sure some can imagine the closeness of races and what say a 10 foot win looks like, now imagine a 60 meter lead over second place, that's what happens when they allow it to be mixed.
Now of course those are athletes and this guy was in an electric scooter. Albeit they can be slower, after a small bit of tinkering my own scooter can attain approx 21 mph for approx 2 hours before I get a noticeable slowdown in my battery supply.