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Deaf-blind Paralympian quits Team USA when told she can't bring assistant to Tokyo
Posted on 7/20/21 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 7/20/21 at 4:17 pm
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Becca Meyers is a six-time Paralympic medalist with three golds from the 2016 Rio Games. She was expected to compete for up to four medals in Tokyo. Instead she's not going. After the 26-year-old deaf-blind swimmer was told she couldn't bring her mother and personal care assistant (PCA) Maria Meyers to help her navigate Tokyo and the Olympic facilities, Meyers informed Team USA that she was quitting the team
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Meyers suffers from Usher syndrome, a genetic disorder that left her deaf at birth. The disorder has also progressively eroded her eyesight. Her vision isn't completely gone, but it's been recently downgraded from the least-impaired Paralympic classification of S13 to the middle class of S12, the Post reports. Paralympians designated as S11 are completely blind or close to it. According to the Post she's the only one of 34 swimmers on the U.S. Paralympic teams who is both deaf and blind
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“We are dealing with unprecedented restrictions around what is possible on the ground in Tokyo. As it’s been widely reported, [the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games], at the direction of the government of Japan, is not permitting any personnel other than operational essential staff with roles related to the overall execution of the games, into the country.
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I feel for this young lady
This post was edited on 7/20/21 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 7/20/21 at 4:19 pm to Oilfieldbiology
Blindsided her.
They should be ashamed.
They should be ashamed.
Posted on 7/20/21 at 4:21 pm to Tigerbait357
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deaf-blind swimmer
That sounds terrifying.
Posted on 7/20/21 at 4:22 pm to Tigerbait357
What a clown show. Did no one think a Paralympian might need an assistant? And it's her own mother for Christ's sake.
This post was edited on 7/20/21 at 4:26 pm
Posted on 7/20/21 at 4:24 pm to Tigerbait357
Branch Covidians slowly sucking the humanity out of the world's population in the name of health and safety.
This post was edited on 7/20/21 at 4:25 pm
Posted on 7/20/21 at 4:24 pm to Tigerbait357
I couldn’t imagine being deaf and slowly losing my sight as well. Eventually it becomes nearly impossible to communicate. That must become such a lonely experience
Posted on 7/20/21 at 4:26 pm to Tigerbait357
Of all the things this woman been through, I wouldn’t expected this was the thing that made her quit.
Posted on 7/20/21 at 4:30 pm to adamau
Usher syndrome is prevalent in the French Acadian community and is prevalent mostly in LA.
This girl Cajun?
This girl Cajun?
Posted on 7/20/21 at 4:34 pm to Tigerbait357
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deaf-blind swimmer was told
Very poor choice of words.
Posted on 7/20/21 at 4:35 pm to Tigerbait357
Trump would’ve made a few phone calls and had this resolved. Thanks Joseph
Posted on 7/20/21 at 4:37 pm to Tigerbait357
But the female weightlifter can bring her cock n balls?
Not right.
Not right.
Posted on 7/20/21 at 4:39 pm to kciDAtaE
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I wouldn’t expected this was the thing that made her quit.
She's deaf and almost blind. And going to the other side of the planet to a mega-city she's never been to before.
It's bureaucratic bullshite driven by the local order of Masked Covidians.
This post was edited on 7/20/21 at 4:40 pm
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