IAAF Appoints Advisory Panel to Review Whether to Permit Double-Amputee Can Compete Against Able-Bodied Athletes, Including in the 2020 Olympics

Double-amputee athlete Blake Leeper has filed an application n July 3 with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), along with a scientific report of a study led by Dr. Alena Grabowski — an expert on the effects of running-specific leg prostheses at the University of Colorado, Boulder — hoping to prove that his use of prostheses do not provide him with a competitive advantage over able-bodied athletes.   The IAAF advised Leeper that, pending the determination of hi