If this doesnt make you smile and feel good then i dont know what will:
Interesting juxtaposition of getting back the use of her legs but losing the paralympics.
I know which i'd prefer though
I somehow don't think she'll be looking back at the [i]what ifs[/i]. Go girl!
Could she not just have kept it quiet for 18 months or so? 🙂 Or maybe the IOC could've made an exception? After all if you are a hand cyclist having working legs doesn't constitute an advantage does it?
Was she wearing a helmet?
After all if you are a hand cyclist having working legs doesn't constitute an advantage does it?
Balance and shiftng weight?
Rules is rules?
It's an interesing idea tho. Should hand cycling/wheelchair racing not be open to all? After all any advantage an able bodied person might have from use of lower body would probably be cancelled out by the extra weight of muscly legs and the fact they aren't pushing a chair day in day out..
I don't expect this idea to be popular mind 🙂
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Great story, but it made me think of the "ex leper" from The Life of Brian. Bloody do-gooders 😆
Ex-Leper: Half a dinare for me bloody life story?
Brian: There's no pleasing some people.
Ex-Leper: That's just what Jesus said, sir.