First day of spring. Spring, fresh start, fresh hope. It's a time of change for good, due to the fact that they might be bad, but it's not spring. Spring, then. It's time for a good transition, so I'm changing, too. No more long boring arguments. The lyrics will be shorter and with spark, or salt, as they say. That's the plan, and what comes out comes out. May Heaven's will take place...
The first subject is simply a past paralympic. The Winter Paralympic Games were held from 6 to 15 March 2026 in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo immediately after the end of the winter games of these disabled, 4 limb athletes. The sports event of sportsmen and sportsmen with a number of limbs smaller than four, or with another body and beauty defects, passed almost unnoticed, and a pity. In the winter games, we won 4 medals in all sports bodies, and in Paralympics 2. In a word, it's not bad, but it could always be worse.
Time for a tough word: turpism. Turpism (from Latin Turpis – ugly) current in art and literature, programically introducing ugliness, physiology, illness and death as a conscious artistic means. It is an expression of rebellion against aestheticisation and conventional canon of beauty, seeking fact in disgusting phenomena (definition AI). So let's decision on to the winter paralympic, orgy of turpistic rivalry. Here is simply a list of the winter disciplines of the Paralympics: 1. The Ice Hockey Couple (Hock on the sled), 2. The Alpine Skiing Couple (Mono-ski), 3. The Blind Biathlon, 4. The Snowboard Couple. All disciplines in male and female versions, the 2 of them were not seen here.
Choose what? Which discipline, hard choice, very difficult, and the top tempts, and it attracts. First – Parahokaj. 2 teams after six goaltender players, riding with a passion for sled skating. The player has 2 short hockey sticks (one in each hand). 1 stick gives drive and braking, the another 1 shoots goals. The equivalent of a worthy monkey. Drive the sled, pass the rivals and shoot, and not throw yourself on the ice. What if the player has only 1 hand? I guess all that's left is simply a goalkeeper.
The Alpine Skiing pair (Mono-ski) – is not a one-legged ski race, unfortunately. Players slide in a car on 1 ski to scope 100 km/h. The illness is simply a high-tech product. Technology is an inherent feature of all of the illusions on the Paralympics. Another discipline is Para Snowboard - players with 1 or 2 mechanical legs jumping on hops. Not even the infamous Marquis de Sade could come up with that. The players have 2 mechanical legs attached to the snowboard alternatively of their own and jump on hops! Professional name: Snowboard Cross (LL1 category). During the Snowboard Cross finals (SB-LL1/LL2) the tour was so "sucked" that players with 2 mechanical legs reflected like rubber balls. 1 of the Americans, who competed on 2 prostheses, scored "wobbla" (vibration) on landing. His legs began to live their own life, mechanical knees did not make with force and just fired from the board like a catapult. Turpism in pure form.
With a pair of Snowboards, that curling in wheelchairs is simply a beak. The usual Curling is any dumb-ass guys brushing ice in front of a pot-shaped rock. In the version of the pair or hard core, there is no brushing of ice, no bow toward the handless. The players usage a stick with a cover that looks like a long lance. This is simply a fantastic sport. The riders in the wheelchairs, like the men with the lances attacking the enemy. And they stab a stone on the ice. In silence and focus. Accidents happen. 1 of the riders so powerfully denied the ice with the wheels of the trolley that the tire lost its grip erstwhile trying to hit hard. The cart turned around its axis, and the stone went consecutive to the judge's feet. Rock, 20 kilos. Not a joke. If the stone broke the legs of an arbitrator, he could run for the next Paralympic. Shortest career path: from arbitrator to (para)gladiator. Fortunately, the organizers predicted that the judges would be equipped with thick protectors. The want to "break a leg" on the Paralympics may sound disturbing literally.
Here we come to my favorite, discipline without equal (on the Paralympic). It is the biathlon of the blind. The name itself is oxymoron. Biathlon is simply a combination of skiing and mark shooting. The guide runs a fewer meters ahead of the player. He can't contact it or pull it on a string or push it with a stick. Short, barky slogans: “Rights!”, “Hop!”, “Mountain!”, “Repeat!”. If the guide is simply a vile man and there are such, alternatively of “to the right”, he will shout “to the left”, and a blind biathlonist will leap into a chasm. Trust, religion in people, is essential in this sport. That's refreshing. By the way, on the podium are both: a blind biathlonist and his guide. They share a common interest. The scope is absolute hardcore. The thought of a blind man shooting at a mark the size of a coin at 10 meters seems absurd. Modern technology helps. The players have rifles, but with a laser. On the ears of the headphones, they are squeaking on the headphones. In fact, it's like erstwhile you close your eyes and squeak in your headphones, you hit the “targets” on the monitor screen in a computer game. I know, it's so stupid, but I didn't make that up! Good news. In the biathlon of the blind (category B1-B3), our representative, acting in this inhuman focus on the shooting scope and rushing behind the ‘ barking’ guide, won a silver medal. We got it! We have a silver medal in the biathlon of the blind! It's worth living, it's worth to work out, it's worth practicing, and it's worth trying hard to get there.
Winter Paralympics have 1 advantage over summertime Paralympics. The players and the players appear in the suits, or the cars, you can't see the stumping limbs as in the summer. Finally, how does this relate to the Olympic ideal: beautiful, healthy bodies in sports competition, to merging, beauty, harmony, competition. What is the ancient perfect of kalokagatia – where the beauty of the body (calo) was inextricably combined with the goodness and efficiency of the spirit (agathos) – compared to the competitions on the Paralympics? In the biathlon of the blind, the descent on 1 skid, or the "studies" on wheelchairs? Well, the authoritative version: Paralympics is "The Olympics of Pure Will". Calka from Nietsch's slogan, and alleged fascists about the "triumph of will"? If the body is not "beautiful and healthy" in the classical sense, then what stays in the battlefield is the very extract of competition. possibly so, but no 1 wants to watch but the players, their close and... deviants. There are no deviants anymore, only average and normal, like athletes otherwise, on the Paralympics. Our regular turpism. Not only in sports, but in medicine, the Internet, politics and alleged culture, etc. Trumpism or uncritical worship of the 45th and 47th president of the US Donald Trump, so common on our expected right, is another word. Sounds similar. About that another time.
I besides did not watch the rivalry of crippled heroes (and heros) at the last winter Paralympics. It's better to sleep or take care of anything else. I only know it from descriptions. I don't deny the right to people with disabilities to play sports. As much as they can do. Their case. However, no 1 will make me watch it of my own free will. A substance of aesthetics. Not just aesthetics, but ethics. If everything is “normal”, then there is no beauty. Or good. Or the truth. alternatively of omnipotent “normality”. There's no sea or land or sky, there's just a swamp. But that's a different subject.
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