Sports
Exeter Officials: Victoria Arlen Exclusion an 'Injustice'
Exeter officials recently sent a letter of support for town resident and Paralympian Victoria Arlen, who was excluded from a world swimming competition this month.
Arlen was ruled ineligible for the World Swimming Championships in Montreal, Canada after a doctor ruled she wasn't disabled enough.
Arlen is in a wheelchair after suffering from the spinal cord disease transverse myelitis.
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She said she was "heartbroken" over the issue.
The Exeter Board of Selectmen wrote a letter to the International Paralympic Committee, calling her exclusion an "injustice."
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Read the letter in the photo section above.
U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, and Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, also sent letters to the IPC asking it to reverse the decision.
Arlen, 18, won a gold medal and three silvers in the 2012 London Paralympics.
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