Olympics guide fails to quell discrimination claims
Updated
A guide for volunteers at the Beijing Olympics is set to cause outrage in the disabled community.
The manual instructs volunteers at the Olympics and Paralympics not to call Paralympians or disabled spectators "crippled" or "lame", even if they are "just joking".
The document says the optically disabled "seldom show strong emotions".
Never "stare at their disfigurement", says the 2008 volunteer guide.
China's treatment of the disabled has in the past angered Australian swimming great Dawn Fraser, who cited it as one reason she will not be going to Beijing.
She said in April she had seen disabled athletes spat on in the streets of Beijing during university games in the mid-1990s.
