It seems somebody has, at last, had a good idea. I heard earlier that a survey by Scope suggested that majority of disabled people supported combining the Olympics and Paralympics. I couldn’t agree more. Indeed, a similar thought occurred to me not so long ago: to have two separate events sends out the wrong signal as it represents a divide between the able-bodied and disabled communities. How cool would it be to have the two types of competitor compete side by side. Granted, they may have to compete in separate events – think of the carnage a race between a sprinter and a wheelchair racer might end in – but I can’t help thinking that to have able and disabled athletes compete in the same stadium at the same time would be a huge rhetorical step forward.