Eight-time Paralympic medalist Blake Leeper aims to compete in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The double-amputee traveled to CU Â鶹ӰԺ for evaluation by CU scientist 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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