a note to english patriot. It may interest you to know that in Olympic recurve archery, handicapped and disabled archers do compete (and very often win) against able-bodied archers. Not all handicaps make realistic competition impossible, although as my archery coach (who is wheelchair-bound) good-humouredly observes, he wouldn't fancy his chances in the high jump. Its a matter of what people can achieve not whether they look "beautiful" doing it.