Might be a very basic example but: I would assume that someone with 2 arms will swim faster than 1 arm and someone without legs will swim very differently than someone without arms.
How do they take this into account to decide who gets gold etc.
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In swimming they group you according to how much your disability impacts you. Sometimes they won’t have enough people competing in a single disability division – in this case the person who wins isn’t the person who touches the wall first, it’s the person who gets closest to the world record in their division
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