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MEDAL QUEST | What Makes a Champion? | "The Stakes are Definitely Higher with Athletes" | PBS

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Prosthetist Shane Ryley reveals the care and technology needed to make the high-performance limbs that have revolutionized sports for people with disabilities. Ryley compares the impact that sports put on prosthetic limbs: "hundreds of times higher" than on biological legs. MEDAL QUEST offers an unprecedented look into these high-stake games and the athletes that play them, and is produced for PBS by WGBH Boston in association with the US Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee. More at: ?pbs.org

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Post Date: July 2, 2012