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Should the Olympics and Paralympics be a single combined event?

In an article
on the Huffington Post, broadcaster and journalist @Mik_Scarlet has questioned
whether it’s time for the concept of a separate Paralympics to be abolished and
for para-events to be run alongside non-disabled events at the Olympics. What
do you think of this idea? Do you think it’s important to keep disabled sports
separate, or would you like to see greater integration? Let us know by
commenting below.
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Too expensive and massive to work.
You're talking about the transportation, accommodation, feeding and security of at least 16000 athletes plus support staff.
There would be horrendous bottlenecks at the track, pool and velodrome.
Both events would need to be restructured and rescheduled and most athletes from both camps would reject any such move.
The media would also struggle to give fair coverage to both events simultaneously and would ignore us even more than they do now!
I competed in the 1980 & 1984 Paralympics.
In my day all we got was a one or two hour programme covering the whole event - so, in all honesty, the situation may appear not be better but believe me it is!!
However, I believe that the paralympics should be a separate event and those with disabilities should be given praise and recognition for their struggle and how hard and far they have come to get this far.
[A] Run as they were at Rio, one directly after the other?
or
[B] Separately, a month or more apart?
I am of course assuming, you are saying both Games [C] Should held at the same venue? rather than [D] a completly different location?