Athletics: Amputee Leeper to miss worlds over eligibility issue

American double amputee Blake Leeper will not be eligible to compete in this mon...

- American double amputee Blake Leeper will not be eligible to compete in this month’s world championships while an advisory group determines his eligibility, the IAAF, athletics’ governing body, said on Saturday.

But the International Association of Athletics Federations said on Saturday that the 30-year-old will not be eligible for the Sept. 27-Oct 6 championships in Doha. The advisory group will determine whether Leeper’s prostheses give him an advantage over other competitors and it will be Leeper’s burden to prove they do not, his lawyers said in a statement on Thursday.

“The IAAF placing the burden of proof on Mr. Leeper is inconsistent with the precedent of Oscar Pistorius, in which the IAAF had the burden of proof to show that Mr. Pistorius’s prostheses provided him with an overall competitive advantage,” Leeper’s lawyers said.

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