He doesn’t mention the complications that having only one forearm creates when you’re pumping heavy iron because Lee brokers no obstacles to his sporting ambition. Within two years Lee had won a bronze medal in the T47 high jump at the 2018 European Championships and he’s aiming higher at the same event in Bydgoszcz, Poland next week. I really like being thrown into the deep end.”Next weekend’s European Championships are the first majors for Ireland’s top track and field para-athletes since the 2019 World Championships in Dubai where he finished sixth. “I was definitely disappointed,” Lee admits, of picking up bone bruising in his heel a few weeks earlier. “When you’re jumping off your plant leg you put 11 times the force of your own body weight into the ground.

Source: Irish Independent May 28, 2021 01:35 UTC