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Volleyball Sitting
The goal of the game is for teams to send the ball over the net through the crossing space and to ground it on the court of the opposing team. Each team is allowed to have up to three contacts with the ball, before it returns it towards the opposing team.[Full story]
　　　

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The system is based on acquired amputations and dysmelia resembling acquired amputations. Amputation through or aboe the talo-crural or wrist joint. If there is a question of the level of amputation, it is the responsibility of the athlete to produce a recent X-ray of the amputation stump at the time of classification ... [Full story]


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