Cawthorn was paralyzed from the waist down in a 2014 car crash
He has previously claimed on social media he was training to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games
In a podcast he said I had an opportunity for the Paralympics for track and field
Named Paralympic stars have cast doubt on these claims saying they had never met him and some of the events he spoke about don t exist in the athletic world
Amanda McGrory, a three-time US Paralympian wheelchair athlete, likened his claims to a kid saying they want to play in the NBA
Two-time Paralympian Brian Siemann said Cawthorn s Instagram posts about his Paralympic participation are a joke among the athletic community
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Before January 6, 25-year-old Representative Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) was known for being the youngest member of Congress, an ardent Trump supporter, and one of the few wheelchair users in elected office. Now he is in the headlines for giving a speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally prior to the insurrection at the Capitol that left five people dead. Throughout his short but meteoric political career, Cawthorn has used his disability to tell a story of overcoming: Despite great adversity, he claims to have achieved excellence through grit and physical strength. Many of his campaign ads featured images of Cawthorn intubated and hospitalized alongside videos of him lifting weights and
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The Nation: “Cawthorn frequently said on social media that he was ‘training’ for the Paralympic Games. Technically, such a statement could be true but only in the sense that I could be training for the Olympic Games. ‘It’s like a kid saying they want to play in the NBA when they’re on their fourth-grade basketball team,’ said Amanda McGrory, a three-time Paralympian who has earned seven medals in track and field. Cawthorn stated on the Christian inspirational podcast
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