Research and Development divisions throughout the world of sports are pushing the technology envelope to make athletes more aerodynamic, to lessen impact on tumbling floors, to increase power in racquets. With 100 days to go before the Beijing Olympics, the biggest story to date has been the new ultra-streamlined swimsuits that have helped swimmers break an uncommon number of world records over the first few months of this year. It is the ultimate irony, then, that one athlete has been banned from this summer's Olympic Games because his equipment is evidently too technologically evolved. The irony comes with the fact that this athlete is physically disabled…
