Aprotim @aprotim.com · Mar 27 This is not actually hypothetical. Blake Leeper's legs were amputated at age 4. He became a world-class 400m runner on running blades. World Athletics used a dubious metric to say the prostheses he'd used his entire career made him "unnaturally" tall, so he couldn't compete in the 2020 Olympics.
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The metric, "Maximum Allowable Standing Height", or MASH, is questionable both in terms of its wide applicability (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and in whether running blade length actually confers a competitive advantage. www.runnersworld.com/news/a445215... www.colorado.edu/today/2020/0...