What Happens If You’re Not “Disabled Enough” For the Paralympics? ...Middle East

The Paralympic Games are an incredible display of athletic performance and grit, a time when disabled athletes get to bring new eyes to their parasports. However, thanks to classification systems that many athletes claim are exclusionary or impractical, there are whole swaths of para-athletes who cannot qualify to compete on an international stage. These disabled athletes have essentially been deemed not disabled enough to participate in the Paralympics. In a personal essay, Sam de Leve, a swimmer with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, describes it as being "left in a limbo where I am too disabled to compete against able swimmers and prohibited from competing against my peers." For the athletes who

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