Eight-time Paralympic medalist Blake Leeper aims to compete in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The double-amputee traveled to Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder for evaluation by Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØscientist Alena Grabowski (Kines’98; PhD’07). She has helped some of the world’s most famous amputee-athletes establish eligibility for contests against athletes with natural legs. Amputees often must prove their prosthetics give no advantage.
Here Leeper is pictured at Balch Fieldhouse on campus.
Read more about Grabowski’s work.Ìý
Photo by Glenn Asakawa
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