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The official Paralympics TikTok accountsparked a debate with a series ofvideosthat some have interpreted asmocking disabled athletes.
The background music accompanying the clip isFinding NemosDory singing, Just keep swimming.
The player quickly gets up and laughs at the accident.
Para Triathlon is swim, bike, and air piano, the caption reads.
You didnt have to do him like that, a critic commented, referring to Snyders video.
Are the athletes in on the joke?
This account is unhinged, and I love it, one commenter wrote.
If you speak to Paralympians, theyve got a great sense of humor.
Theyre not wrapped up in cotton wool and protected from society, he said, as perWZZM.
They like to laugh about themselves.
Like we all do, and thats why weve tried to be really edgy on the Paralympic TikTok account.
On the Paralympics YouTube channel, athletes promote the upcoming Games using a light-hearted tone.
Is this your first time riding in a car with a guy without arms?
Stutzman, who won silver in the mens Individual Compound Open in 2012, asks his passenger.
Now,Stutzman saystheres a chance that there could be four to five armless archers in Paris this Paralympics.
Thats the legacy of Armless Archer.
The Paralympics began as a small competition of injured World War II veterans from Great Britain in 1948.
Since then, they have taken place every four years.
While some people believe the videos went too far, others enjoyed the social media managers unconventional approach
