http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27243462
National Dwarf Games is about 'ability not disability'
When the UK Dwarf Games started in 1995, just 40 athletes took part in the inaugural event.
Over the next three days about 200 athletes with dwarfism will compete against one another in Birmingham and Wolverhampton in sports including athletics, swimming, basketball and rifle shooting.
Organisers say the event has grown significantly in the wake of the 2012 Paralympics which "put disability sport on the map".
Arthur Dean, from Stockport, started the UK version of the tournament after taking his daughter Nichola to take part in the World Dwarf Games in Chicago in 1993.
He said: "Just to see the sense of achievement on people's faces and the lifting of their self esteem that taking part gave them, I thought we have to take this back home."
Mr Dean, who is the president of the Dwarf Sports Association (DSA), said traditionally people with dwarfism were "sidelined from sport".
"There is a lot more inclusion these days but when I was young it was 'you look after the kit, you look after the water bottles' and not about actually taking part.
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"Everybody has the same brain that dreams, longs, wants, needs - all the same things - ours just happen to live in a smaller shell."
(continued, technically not the same brain - technically....)
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So, no dwarf tossing, I imagine...
What about an axe competition involving orcish heads?
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Why don't they just have events in the ordinary Olympics that dwarfs can be good at?
The low jump and the short jump have been ignored by the sizeist organisers for years. And I'd love to see a Shetland Pony class in the showjumping and dressage.
Or they could do it on dogback.
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The low jump and the short jump have been ignored by the sizeist organisers for years. And I'd love to see a Shetland Pony class in the showjumping and dressage.
Or they could do it on dogback.
It makes you think !!
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Imagine the cost savings if all games took place in miniature?
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