Over the weekend, wheelchair teams from around the country competed for titles, but one of the teams garnering national attention wasn’t for a championship; it was for an unfortunate incident with an airline. Some athletes who arrived for the weekend in Richmond, Virginia, posted videos of disassembled wheelchairs.
Published: Apr. 17, 2024 at 5:54 PM EDTBRUNSWICK, Ohio - Over the weekend, wheelchair teams from around the country competed for titles, but one of the teams garnering national attention wasn’t for a championship; it was for an unfortunate incident with an airline.Now, the local team is weighing in on how airlines can do better.
“I mean, they have precautions like fragile stickers, but that’s kinda, an asterisk by fragile; you can slap a bunch of stickers on your equipment but hit or miss depending on who’s taking care of it that day,” said another player, Anthony Robinson. It’s crucial parts, it’s basically like taking their legs away.”
“That is literally how a person gets around; they have no other way of getting around; that piece of equipment has been measured to them, customized to them; they can’t just go to Walmart or Target and pick up another one,” said Robinson.
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