Kearney explained how after an initial evaluation in Sheffield in March 2023, he was waiting “approximately six hours without communication”, before they told them that the classifiers could not reach a follow -up. She states that no reason has been given and that the documentation told her that she was sent after the event never arrived.
A second review of Tok Place four months later in Manchester, with Kearney claiming that 10 additional points “excessive” were added to its general classification score.
She wrote: “[It] It cannot be explained or justified by subjective points of view or individual evaluators. This leads me to believe that my classification review lacked objectivity.
“The classification system has not changed between 2018 and 2023, so it cannot be a reason for the change in my classification.”
Kearney said he was showing paperwork for the classifiers stating that he walks with crutches. She says that this does not have the case since 2016, and that she is now a wheelchair user.
“It was not only an insensitive mistake, but it also indicates that the process that tok place … was inherently fluid,” he argued.
He also states that one of the classifiers asked an official “to leave my wheelchair to a semi-struck position that my face with my face against the wall to prevent him from wandering me and affirms that this constituted, not eye, humiliating myself as a athlete and as a disabled person, but once again demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of my disability …” “” “. “
She wrote: “I simply do not believe that volunteer classifiers that can be doctors in any field of medicine, or physiotherapists, have the necessary knowledge and experience to evaluate complex neurological conditions such as mine, which puts me to the athletes of similar disability in a great disadvantage compared to our classmates …”
