: Tokyo 2020: Why the Paralympics disability classification system is under fire from some athletes #IndiaNEWS They’re supposed to be about making parasports fair, but the category system central to

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Tokyo 2020: Why the Paralympics disability classification system is under fire from some athletes #IndiaNEWS
They’re supposed to be about making parasports fair, but the category system central to disabled sports and the Paralympics, which classifies athletes according to their impairment, is increasingly under fire.French swimmer Theo Curin, whose lower legs and hands were amputated after a bout of meningitis as a child, is sitting out the Tokyo Games over his unhappiness with the system and how athletes are assessed.“Overnight, two people who swim with both their hands appeared in my S5 category. You don’t have to be very smart to understand that having two hands in swimming helps a lot,� the 21-year-old said.“There are a lot of flagrant inequalities that annoy me and are really ridiculous,� he said.Ten types of impairment are accepted at the Paralympics, broadly covering physical, visual, and intellectual disabilities. But within each impairment category there are a vast range of abilities, so athletes are further divided by class in a system designed to ensure people compete against others with approximately the same capabilities.In swimming, for example, each class has a prefix – S for freestyle, butterfly and backstroke, SB for breaststroke, and SM for individual medley – followed by a number.Physical impairments cover numbers 1-10, with the number lower the more severe the impairment. Vision impairments...Read more

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