Tag: Kurt Fearnley
Rio Paralympics: Kurt Fearnley predicts ‘boosting’ cheats will get caught
Australia's champion wheelchair racer Kurt Fearnley says from his first Paralympics, in Sydney 2000, he has heard stories about boosting – the practice among athletes with spinal cord injuries of inflicting trauma on themselves, such as breaking a toe or sitting on their scrotums, to raise their blood pressure and improve performance.
