It should perhaps be that the IOC/host country have to underwrite the event in future, and that sponsors of the Olympics include the paralympics as part of the package.
I’ll be honest, I’m surprised that isn’t already the case.
I think Brazil shows there is a good reason to add the Paralympics back into the main event so it can’t be treated as second best ever again
Would be difficult to manage, but it would mean the hosts couldn’t conveniently forget or treat the Paralympians as second best I suppose.
I also think that when everyone is home and they don’t feel the need to keep the Brazilians happy, there will be a lot more stories of bad management and general shonkiness of the whole Olympics.
GB medal haul aside, there’s very little positive to report from the Rio Olympics. Brazil has demonstrated to the rest of the world how little they care about anything except football, stands are half empty, many Brazilians didn’t even have a clue who their own gold medal winning High Jumper was and those that did were busy booing the Frenchman that came 2nd whilst he was competing (not since Jesse Owens competing in Nazi Berlin in 1936 has this happened!).
It’s a real shame, the Sydney Olympics were incredible, Athens in 2004 was looking like it could be a disaster but the Greeks pulled it off brilliantly somehow, Beijing was fantastic, London… Awesome! Rio? Seems like it will be remembered as the Games that shouldn’t have been allowed to happen, much like the 2010 World Cup has had no legacy for South Africa (other than some huge stadiums that no longer get used for anything), it seems like Brazil cares little for the rest of the world and has little or no interest in the Games it was asked to host and there will be little or no legacy going forward!