Ema's Insights

      Technology is a major part of our modern society, always evolving and changing. Adaptive technology has been used in disabled sports for a while and is also always changing. I do think that adaptive technology should be allowed in disabled sports. For practice athletes should be allowed to use whatever type of technology they want or are comfortable with. On the other hand, I think that there should be some type of regulation on the technology that is allowed to be used in competition. With all of the new technology coming out, it's going to be common that one athlete could come in with state-of-the-art equipment, while another athlete has adaptive technology from ten years ago because that is all that they can afford. Major competitions like the Olympics should be putting regulations on what can be used like everyone has to have devices from the same year or manufacture. Athletes competing in the games who come from disadvantaged nations that cannot afford the tech...

      Increasing media coverage of the Paralympics and other disabled sports could be done in a number of different ways. Firstly, since both of the games are aired at the same time then their commercials should be filmed together. It's common knowledge that the Olympic games have a bigger following than the Paralympics. If the commercials were filmed and aired with both competitors, it would draw more attention to the Paralympics. Every commercial for the Olympics should also have a snippet letting the viewers know that they could simultaneously be watching the Paralympics as well. Secondly, I think that the TV schedule for the games should be used changeably between the two games as they are going on. For example, the Olympic 500-yard dash is aired and then the Paralympic 500-yard dash is aired. Using the games literally simultaneously for people to be able to watch both of the games with the different athletes. Lastly, I think that the Paralympics should be getting mor...