Another Double Amputee’s Fight for the Olympics Is Dealt a Major Setback – The New York Times

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Another Double Amputee’s Fight for the Olympics Is Dealt a Major Setback

Blake Leeper says his prostheses level the playing field. But World Athletics has successfully argued that they give him an unfair advantage by making him artificially taller.

Blake Leeper and his lawyers plan to appeal the ruling in civil court in Switzerland.Credit…Mike Byrnes/EPA, via Shutterstock

By Matthew Futterman

Oct. 27, 2020

Eight years ago Blake Leeper ran in the Paralympics against Oscar Pistorius, the original Blade Runner, thinking that one day he would do everything Pistorius had done on the track, and then some.

By the end of last year, Leeper, 31, was getting very close. His best times for the 400 meters [...]