Para athlete Sophie Hahn, a Paralympic and triple world sprint champion, requested the "chance to clear her name after she was singled out and accused of abusing the sport's complex classification system," according to Ben Bloom of the London TELEGRAPH. Hahn, who suffers from learning difficulties as a result of her cerebral palsy, was the only athlete named at a Parliamentary hearing on Tuesday when campaigner Michael Breen claimed she "did not have the required disability to compete in the same classification as his daughter Olivia, the world T38 long jump champion." Despite requests from MPs not to provide names of those he believed had been "wrongly classified" -- and therefore, he claims, "given a competitive advantage" -- Breen recounted a conversation with British Paralympic head coach Paula Dunn in '13 in which she "allegedly suggested Hahn did not have cerebral palsy." Speaking through her manager, Ian Byers, Hahn refuted Breen's "distressing" claims, which she described as "unfounded" allegations (TELEGRAPH, 10/31).
