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IAAF to discuss Paralympians competing in Olympics ‘in the coming weeks’

The IAAF, track and field’s international governing body, will look the possibility of Paralympians such as German amputee long jumper Markus Rehm competing in the Rio Olympics “in the coming weeks,” an IAAF spokesman told Yahoo Sports.

Rehm, a 2012 Paralympic champion long jumper whose right leg was amputated below the knee after a boating accident at age 14, won the able-bodied German long jump title in 2014.

He would have won it this year, too, except he had to compete aside from the able-bodied jumpers after the German track and field federation “used biometric studies to rule that his carbon-fiber prosthesis gives him an unfair advantage,” according to The Associated Press.