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Paralympic expulsions damage games

Source: AM
Published: Friday, September 12, 2008 8:28 AEST
Expires: Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:28 AEST

An important aspect of the Paralympics is that competition is fair and that people with similar disabilities compete against each other. Already though in this year's games there have been cases of athletes taking performance enhancing drugs and claims that some of the competitors aren't as disabled as they claim.

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Tags: paralympics, china

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