If you are blind you can’t play games in which balls are used. You can’t box, play hockey or lacrosse, pole vault, or fence. But you can do the broad jump, the hop, step, and jump, the standing high ...

LONDON — The last time George Avery appeared at the Summer Olympics in London was in 1948, when the Australian captured the silver medal in the triple jump — which was then known as the hop, step and ...