Greg Walker encountered the tallest man in Iran in the dining hall of a hotel in rural China. Walking with crutches, the man, Morteza Mehrzad, ducked beneath a towering archway. Once through, he straightened his back, unfolding his 8-foot-1-inch frame.
Walker’s first thought: Wow. His second thought: Oh, this is bad. For at that moment, Walker, coaching the United States men’s sitting volleyball team in a tournament in China, realized that Iran had intensified the competition to find tall players leading up to the Paralympics. A variation of the able-bodied sport, the game is played by people with various impairments who, sitting and sliding along the floor, volley over a nearly four-foot net.
News Source : Smh.com
