Disability to superability: How the world's best differently-abled athletes prepped for the 2020 Paralympics

The 16th Summer Paralympic Games began on August 24 in Tokyo, and is a testament to the grit of differently-abled athletes across the globe
Published: Aug 28, 2021
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Blake Leeper, an eight-time paralympic track and field international medallist, world-record holder and three-time American record holder, trains at Dorsey High School in Los Angeles, California. He is hoping to be the first double amputee to compete in the Games for the American team. A panel appointed by track and field’s global governing body recently ruled that Leeper’s blade-like prostheses give him an unfair advantage because of their height. He then started training with new prostheses that were 1.5 inches shorter