Paralympic athletes and even the International Paralympic Committee are raising their visibility on social media with content focusing on and even making fun of…
“They’re not wrapped up in cotton wool and protected from society,” IPC spokesman Craig Spence said of Paralympic athletes.Paris 2024 Paralympic GamesThe Games will be underway this week with the Opening Ceremony on Wednesday. Athletes and the Games’ own social and creative teams have been taking a more aggressive approach to their messaging, leaning into disabilities and being willing to risk discomfiting their audience to introduce athletes and their personalities, not just their disabilities.
Stutzman’s passenger is Chuck Aoki, a wheelchair rugby player joining Stutzman on Team USA. In the YouTube series, Stutzman hosts Aoki and para track and field athlete Scout Bassett telling their stories from a different point of view with humor thrown in. “If you speak to Paralympians, they’ve got a great sense of humor. They’re not wrapped up in cotton wool and protected from society,” Spence said in an interview earlier this year.
Spence said the criticism the IPC had received came mostly from people outside the community of people with disabilities, and the comments often ask who the admin is on the account — implying it’s someone making fun of disabilities. But according to Spence, the “admin” is 2008 Paralympian Richard Fox from Britain.
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