MonoLympic / 26 July 2012
MonoLympic has only one sport, only one category, only one concept: access.
The torch has been lit and you have been chosen to tweet the flame.
Countdown will commence one quantum moment from the designated start, which will inevitably be in advance of the allocation of the first metal (lump).
And the nominations are...
Well, in the spirit of equality and freedom of access, the committee invite you to nominate your all-time, show-stopping, mind-boggling access issue. Under the MonoLympic rules you will need your access issue to have been witnessed by a fully trained MonoLympic access volunteer (please ensure that their certificate states they have satisfactorily completed a 5 minute introduction). Unwitnessed access issues may still be accepted into the MonoLympic, but in the spirit of equality, they will not be judged.
MonoLympic has no connection to any other Lympic activity on the planet.
All MonoLympic lumps are copyright.
Keywords: access,access issues
Comments
Gini
/My own nomination for bronze would be the small, broken, yolk-yellow, decapitated-egg-shaped fold-down shelf in Boots the Chemist. Installed, after rigorous complaints, at a low level at the end of the impolitely high dispensing counter, to serve as the dispensing counter for wheelborne and short people, it was promptly sat upon by a misguided customer and consequently is merely decorative and maybe symbolic.
Colin Hambrook
/People who look at you expectantly, butt in and don't give you time to gather your thoughts. I'm confused by fatigue more often than not; can't find the words I need and often can't think of the things I want to say. Under pressure it becomes more and more difficult.
Trish Wheatley
/GIni, what a genius idea!
Mine would have to be the lack of awareness of the social model in our society.
richard downes
/I claim gold for being first.
Phones are my nightmare, followed by counters with glass partitions. Stuff that separates me from the person that i'm talking to. It bothers me that i can't see them or that their is a gap between us. Sometimes i recognise its supposed to be for their safety but that bothers me even more that they see me as a threat. it blows a fuse in my brain and then i find i can't speak to them. i feel disrespected, humbled and humiliated
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