Paralyzed teen not allowed to participate in Paralympics

I agree completely Lαrα, for all we know and hope, there could be a cure tomorrow that'll allow all of us to walk again! For this case, their decision makes no sense :jerk:

In the 80s no one knew how a person would recover and when you had spinal damage either through trauma or other means it was the spine bones and the spinal nerves within the backbone  which in tern affected the strength, movement of the limbs.

The first paralympic games were for spinal completes/incompletes for there was a walker or two back then also.  thats how it all began and look at it now, wow amazing

Three decades later i to have been classed as temporary but never by spinal experts, they don.t know how a person will recover for we are all different...  and still am that word temp... which closes many a door in your face... not just in sport but in my time many other tasks, collages, assisted help, disabled groups plus others... to me that loophole? needs to be closed esp these days.. if you want to do sport, why not... you could damage yourself by falling over... so can other persons without ailments etc.

The temps are left  on their own, watching others who may not have spinal damage who may fit into that rule book....   

cos they are temporary

I do hope they dont stop her... she is brill at it...

:bump: There is a new article in the NYT's today. 

You might as well have asked me to preform brain surgery. :shrug: 
Still can't find the tag button. :lol:

That is ridiculous and completely unfair. The feeling she must have felt when she was told she couldn't compete must have been crushing to her. Those athletes work so hard to even be considered. They ought to be ashamed of themselves...