“The International Paralympic Committee, the IPC, they have a registry of athletes. You have to be on it to even compete internationally,”
The list is publicly available, and contains over 4,000 athletes from around the world. Cawthorn isn’t on it.
In a May 2019 post, Cawthorn uses the hashtag “qualifiers.”
But McGrory told me, “There were no qualifying meets in 2019.”
“[My teammates and I] would share whatever posts [Cawthorn] put up and be like, ‘Look at what batshit thing he said about the Paralympics this week.… The claims he was making were just so absurd, you have to find some humor in it.”
“There is such a lack of awareness about the Paralympic Movement,” Siemann said. “[People] don’t understand the time and effort and energy that Paralympic athletes put in their training. It’s an elite sport. You can’t just get in a racing chair. That’s really not how it works.”
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