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Paralympian Blake Leeper barred from Olympics because his artificial legs give him an unfair advantage, athletics bosses say – ABC News
The American athlete, who was born without legs, is barred from the Tokyo Games after athletics bosses rule his carbon-fibre prostheses would give him an unfair…
Paralympian runner Blake Leeper has been prevented from competing at the Tokyo Olympics, because his two prosthetic legs have been ruled to give him an unfair advantage.
- Blake Leeper wanted to emulate Oscar Pistorius’s feat of competing against able-bodied runners at the Olympics
- But a World Athletics review panel ruled his carbon-fibre prosthetics made him “unnaturally tall”
- Leeper was born with no legs beneath the knee, and is an eight-time Paralympic medallist
Leeper is “running unnaturally tall”…
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